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At Rulon International, we know you want to feel confident you have the right manufacturer and systems to execute your unique vision. In order to do that, you need to partner with someone who can help you successfully achieve your vision within your budget. The problem is that it can be difficult to find the custom wood ceilings and walls you need to make your project stand out as innovative while satisfying your client. This problem can make you feel frustrated and leave your client feeling underwhelmed. We believe it shouldn’t be so hard to find the right products to achieve your vision, and you need a partner who can help you figure it out. For nearly 40 years, in more than 40 different countries, we have helped people just like you achieve their vision within their budget. Here’s how it works: you schedule a design call, receive your product details, and then see your vision come to life. And in the meantime, download our look book to get inspiration for your next project. Stop stifling your vision through value engineering, and instead complete your design and impress your clients!

We have gotten comfortable calling things wellness design that are not, quite, that. A meditation pod in a breakroom. Ci...
10/30/2026

We have gotten comfortable calling things wellness design that are not, quite, that. A meditation pod in a breakroom. Circadian lighting in a space with untreated acoustics and a ceiling full of off-gassing materials. These are gestures. They are not without value. But they are not the same as designing a building where every material decision, every acoustic choice, every surface specification was made with the occupant's sensory and physiological experience in mind. The difference is legible to the people inside the building, even if they cannot articulate it. They feel it as ease, or as its absence. More buildings deserve to be designed all the way through.

That is the conversation we are interested in having: https://hubs.ly/Q04ChBrr0

The design concept was straightforward. Atlanta's tree canopy, the dense green cover that distinguishes the city from ab...
10/27/2026

The design concept was straightforward. Atlanta's tree canopy, the dense green cover that distinguishes the city from above, brought inside. Wood forms growing up the walls and spreading across the ceiling, so that the first thing a child sees when they look up isn't a clinical surface. It's something that feels, however gently, like the outside world. Curvalon panels made this possible: concave and convex curves, shaped to follow the organic geometry of branches and canopy, paired with Flat Veneer Panels that extend the warmth across the ceiling plane. The clinical environment didn't disappear. It was held by something that felt more like nature than institution.

Browse Curvalon: https://hubs.la/Q04Cg_kh0


| © Jonathan Hillyer Photography

There is a meaningful difference between a quiet room and a comfortable one. A room that has been acoustically deadened ...
10/26/2026

There is a meaningful difference between a quiet room and a comfortable one. A room that has been acoustically deadened - too much absorption, no liveliness - feels wrong in a different way than a room that echoes. The voice loses its warmth. The space feels like it is swallowing you rather than receiving you. Acoustic comfort is calibrated. It is not a setting at either extreme. Wellness-centered acoustic design targets appropriate reverberation times for the activity of the space, not simply maximum absorption. Aluratone panels offer NRC values from 0.60 to 0.85 depending on panel type and backing - giving designers the range to tune each room rather than treat the whole building with a single solution. Some rooms need to be quieter. Some rooms need to hold sound. The wellness-centered building knows which is which.

Explore Aluratone: https://hubs.la/Q04Cg_-h0

WELL Building Standard v2 dedicates an entire concept category to Sound. It includes preconditions for maximum backgroun...
10/16/2026

WELL Building Standard v2 dedicates an entire concept category to Sound. It includes preconditions for maximum background noise levels, reverberation time targets, and sound masking design — and it applies these across all project types registered under WELL: offices, multifamily residential, education, retail, healthcare, and hospitality. Wood acoustic ceiling panels contribute meaningfully to WELL Sound concept compliance. The ceiling is one of the most direct ways to meet it.

Download Rulon's WELL submittal documentation: https://hubs.la/Q04zlgZd0


| © Mark Herboth Photography LLC

A children's hospital is one of the hardest design briefs there is. The people who walk through the door are frightened....
10/14/2026

A children's hospital is one of the hardest design briefs there is. The people who walk through the door are frightened. The children are sick or in pain. Their parents are holding themselves together. The staff are managing the weight of that reality every single shift. The question the design team at Children's Healthcare of Atlanta's Center for Advanced Pediatrics held onto was this: what does the space do for the people who have to be here? The answer they built — 260,000 square feet, Curvalon panels climbing the walls, wood forms spreading across the ceiling like the tree canopy of the city outside — is one of the most considered responses to that question we've seen. We were proud to be part of it.

See Rulon's work in healthcare design: https://hubs.la/Q04zlbSV0


| © Jonathan Hillyer Photography

There is a version of wellness design that is mostly aesthetic. It uses the right stones, the right plants, the right pa...
10/13/2026

There is a version of wellness design that is mostly aesthetic. It uses the right stones, the right plants, the right palette. It photographs beautifully. And it leaves the acoustic environment untouched, the material health undocumented, and the sensory experience of actually being inside the building unconsidered. This is wellness-adjacent. It is not the same thing. The difference matters because the people inside these buildings feel it. The patient whose sleep is interrupted by noise. The student whose concentration erodes by noon. The employee who leaves a wellness-branded workplace with a headache. Designing for wellness means designing all the way through. The ceiling included.

We think about this on every project. Let's talk about yours: https://hubs.la/Q04zjF9Y0


© Craig Lee

Wood is one of the few materials that registers as warm before you touch it. Something in the visual processing of grain...
10/08/2026

Wood is one of the few materials that registers as warm before you touch it. Something in the visual processing of grain and tone signals the nervous system toward ease — toward the associations of shelter, nature, and care that wood carries across nearly every culture and every era of building. This is not poetry. It is measurable. Studies in environmental psychology link exposure to natural wood surfaces with reduced cortisol, lower heart rate, and improved mood across clinical, educational, and workplace settings. Material choice is a wellness decision. Rulon makes that decision beautiful.

Browse Rulon's full wood ceiling and wall range: https://hubs.la/Q04zjtzG0

People don't consciously register most of what a room does to them. They don't think: the reverberation time is too long...
10/07/2026

People don't consciously register most of what a room does to them. They don't think: the reverberation time is too long. They think: this place is loud and I want to leave. They don't think: the VOC concentration in this finish is elevated. They think: I have a headache and I'm not sure why. They don't think: the ceiling material is absorbing stress from my nervous system. They think: I feel calmer in here than I expected to. Wellness-centered design works at this level. Below conscious awareness. In the room's behavior rather than its appearance. What a ceiling is made of, and what it does acoustically, is part of this. It always has been.

Learn more about Rulon's material approach: https://hubs.la/Q04zjp0J0



| © Mark Herboth Photography LLC

Think about a space that made you feel genuinely well. Not stimulated. Not impressed. Well. The air moved easily. The ro...
10/06/2026

Think about a space that made you feel genuinely well. Not stimulated. Not impressed. Well. The air moved easily. The room wasn't competing with you for attention. Sound arrived and settled rather than accumulating. The materials overhead communicated — without a word — that someone had thought carefully about what it would feel like to be here. Wellness in design used to mean a yoga studio or a meditation room. It has grown into something larger: a baseline expectation that every room, in every building type, should support the people inside it rather than tax them. This October, we're exploring what that looks like in practice.

Explore Rulon's approach to wellness-centered design: https://hubs.la/Q04zjl320



| © Mark Herboth Photography LLC

The classroom gets the credit. The fitness center quietly does some of the same work.The 14-story building designed by M...
09/30/2026

The classroom gets the credit. The fitness center quietly does some of the same work.
The 14-story building designed by Morris Adjmi Architects opened in Fall 2024, fully funded by the Helen Diller Foundation and gifted to Berkeley. Its indoor-outdoor fitness center, yoga studio, and meditation rooms weren't added as amenities. They were part of the brief, because the team understood that physical and mental wellness aren't separate from academic performance. They're the conditions it depends on.

For the projects where wellness is the whole point: https://hubs.ly/Q04whb190


| © Jason O'Rear

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