Pool in a lush lawn garden with umbrellas and loungers

The studio · San Diego County

Designed
to feel playful.

Before we draw a single line we ask one question: how do you want to feel here? Then we design the light, the materials and the rooms around the answer.

01 / 07 · The family pool and lawn

Allaie Aisha · Founder | Principal Designer

A feeling first,
then a floor plan.

Moodhaus Labs is an architecture and landscape design studio working across San Diego County, from the coast to the canyons. We believe a home should be designed the way a great hotel or restaurant is: around how each space should make you feel. Then we draw it, show it to you in photoreal 3D, and hand your builder a design so complete it can be built exactly as you saw it.

How we work

The mood library

How do you want to feel?

Every space we design begins with a feeling. Here are seven, and the decisions that create each one.

The family pool and lawn

Playful

Room to run, a beach entry for the little ones, and steps wide enough to become seats.

Free · Sunlit · Sociable

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Light: Full sun by day; low 3000K garden light and a little sparkle in the trees at night.
Material: Cool-to-the-touch pavers, smooth plaster, fabrics that dry in an hour.
Shape: Curves over corners, an open lawn, a pool edge you can sit on.
Sound & scent: Moving water, citrus trees, the smell of cut grass.

Your mood brief

Every room, designed backwards from a feeling.

01
Name the feeling
For every space we agree on a mood and the moments it should hold: a Sunday breakfast, a dinner for twelve, the last swim of the day.
02
Tune the levers
Light temperature, palette, materials, proportion, sound and planting are chosen to create that feeling, room by room.
03
Feel it before it is built
You stand in each room in photoreal 3D at morning, golden hour and night, and we adjust until it feels right.

What we do