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Our Mission
As pediatric cancer treatment has shifted from hospitals into the home, children now spend the majority of their treatment recovering in bedrooms that were never designed to support the physical and emotional realities of prolonged cancer care. Families return home to environments that often depend entirely on financial circumstances, housing conditions, caregiving capacity, and available space.
Designing Dreams exists to bridge that gap, we transform children's bedrooms into treatment-informed healing environments designed to support recovery at home. More than a beautiful bedroom, we create spaces that help children safely heal, rest, recover, and experience the joy of simply being a kid throughout treatment.
GROUNDED IN RESEARCH
Medical Safety
Medical Safety Depending on each child's needs, we may replace worn carpeting with easier-to-maintain flooring, improve organization to reduce environmental hazards, and create spaces that better support treatment and recovery at home.
Play & Learning
We design dedicated spaces that support homebased education, creativity, and age-appropriate development while helping children maintain a sense of normalcy.
Functional Design
Thoughtful organization and storage help reduce clutter, improve accessibility, and make everyday routines easier for children and caregivers. We create functional systems designed around each family's space and needs.
Rest & Recovery
We create comfortable, accessible sleep environments that promote restorative rest and adapt to each child's medical and physical needs throughout treatment.
Emotional Well-Being
Environment influences stress, anxiety, emotional regulation, and overall well-being. We thoughtfully design rooms to reduce stress while restoring comfort, dignity, and hope.
Personalized Spaces
By incorporating each child's interests, hobbies, favorite colors, and passions, we create spaces that celebrate their identity and remind them they are so much more than their diagnosis.
What They Say?
Our Core Values
Lead with Compassion
We center children and families in every decision, approaching each relationship with empathy, dignity, and care.
Act with Integrity
We do what is right, even when no one is watching. We are responsible stewards of the trust, resources, and stories entrusted to us.
Be Bold
We challenge what supportive at-home cancer care can look like and pursue meaningful change with courage, creativity, and purpose.
Build Together
Our impact is made possible through relationships. We listen, collaborate, celebrate one another, and recognize that our collective strength makes the mission possible.
Latest Blog
Diagnosed on Christmas Day, Avery has years of treatment ahead of her. Like so many children today, most of that treatment it will happen at home.
Vicky is a vibrant, kind-hearted 11-year-old who has already shown more courage than most of us will in a lifetime.
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Larissa had one very clear dream — she wanted a forest-themed bedroom to feel calm and at peace while she continued her fight against cancer.
What They Say?
What they Say?
"We are filled with renewed hope by imagining our daughter growing up in her new room. It has helped us feel not alone in this battle, and it restores our faith in humanity that people care about our daughter enough to go so far and above to bring smiles to our faces." Parent
lia's mom
“Of all of the programs helping kids with cancer, this is the one that makes a difference through the years of treatment."
Keelys mom
"We have shed SO many tears over the last several months and this helps replace tears with smiles and joy! You have brighten up the absolutely darkest period of our lives."
Haylee's mom
"When you're seven you don't resign yourself to daily struggles, you encounter them each day anew. Having a fortress of solitude helps immeasurably."
Cecilia's dad
“The great thing about Designing Dreams is that you can make a tremendous impact on a kid at the worst time in their life. And what’s really cool is we can get our employees involved with the bedroom transformation. We really enjoy giving financially as well as our employees getting out there and being part of the community.”