Send us Fan Mail We spend roughly 90% of our lives indoors, but how often are our homes actually designed with our health in mind? In this episode of Never Been Sicker, Michael Rubino sits down with Kelly Grace, a non-toxic architect, to uncover what goes into creating a truly healthy home. Kelly explains why conventional architecture and building practices often prioritize cost, aesthetics, efficiency, and basic safety while overlooking how materials and design choices can affect the people living inside. They dive into building materials, moisture and mold, ventilation, flooring, drywall, furniture, mattresses, air quality, and the hidden decisions that can make the difference between a beautiful home and a health-supporting one. Kelly also reveals materials she personally avoids, why she believes drywall has no place in bathrooms, the problems she sees with popular flooring options like LVP, and why even brand-new homes can develop moisture problems. ----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- CHAPTERS: 00:00 Introduction 01:00 What Is a Non-Toxic Architect? 04:00 Why Kelly Started Designing Healthier Homes 07:00 Are Modern Homes Actually Built for Health? 10:00 The Problem With Conventional Building Materials 14:00 Mold, Moisture & Modern Construction 18:00 Why Kelly Wouldn't Put Drywall in a Bathroom 22:00 Building Codes vs. Human Health 26:00 The Ventilation Problem 30:00 Flooring a Non-Toxic Architect Avoids 34:00 Hidden Toxins in Furniture & Mattresses 39:00 Why New Homes Can Still Have Mold 44:00 Building a Healthy Home From Scratch 49:00 Healthier Changes You Can Make Right Now 54:00 Kelly's Biggest Healthy Home Takeaways 57:00 Where to Find Kelly Grace ----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Kelly Grace is an accomplished architect based out of Washington DC, and the Managing Principal of Travis Price Architects, an award-winning architecture firm, widely applauded for their visionary aesthetics, informed by ecology, mythology, and technology. TPA seeks to create an enduring archaeology for tomorrow, through culturally diverse inspirations, natural self-reliance, and high-performance building practices. Kelly is known to many as the “NONTOXARCHITECT” on social media, where she shares her advice on material selections, design details, indoor air quality, water filtration, biohacking, EMF mitigation, moisture control, and much more. She is dedicated to designing healthy buildings, using non-toxic products, to promote wellness habits and optimal living. Kelly is also a Founding Member of the Healthy Building Alliance, an up-and-coming platform to connect healthy building professionals; architects, builders, engineers, homeowners, consultants, and product manufacturers, to provide a network of resources and educational tools, based on proven building biology and building science principles. Kelly and her husband Matt live in Davidsonville, MD with their three children, Atlas, Adelyn, and Roark, twenty chickens, and dogs Blue and Ruby. 🔵 Follow her: @nontoxarchitect @travispricearch travispricearchitects.com ----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- 🔵 My Favorite Cleaning Products: https://www.homecleanse.com/shop/ 🔵 Remediation FREE Consultation: https://www.homecleanse.com/contact/ 🔵 The Dust Test: https://www.thedusttest.com Learn More: https://www.themichaelrubino.com/ https://www.homecleanse.com/shop Let’s Connect... Website: https://www.themichaelrubino.com/contact/ IG: https://www.instagram.com/themichaelrubino/ TikTok: https://www.tiktok.com/@themichaelrubino FB: https://www.facebook.com/themichaelrubino/ LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/themichaelrubino/