What is Mona Life?
A More Natural Life
We are a design firm that specializes in bringing nature into your living environments. We work with homeowners, business owners, interior designers, architects, and real estate developers to co-create places that improve lives.
Meet the Team
Troy Silva
Troy is a compassionate, generous, and resilient person. Since graduating from Cornell University with a degree in Landscape Architecture with emphasis in Environmental Psychology, Troy has gained two decades of experience designing and creating dream worlds for people across the globe.
Ultimately, he’s inspired by nature and but fueled by uplifting others. He’s also a great chef and a total plant geek. Some think he’s the real life Dr. Dolittle because his ability to sense the needs of plants and animals is just that uncanny!
Melly Paluay
Melly is one of the most kind hearted people you will ever meet. She simply radiates joy. You can’t help but smile when you’re around her. She is also never one to shy away from a challenge.
As an army veteran and registered nurse who is passionate about integrative wellness and holistic medicine, she brings a wealth of knowledge, wisdom, and perspective to the MoNA Life Team. Melly is also the ultimate adventurer. She skydives, rock climbs, paddleboards, wakeboards, and does Jujitsu in her spare time.
Lucky Wenzel
Lucky is our hyper-social and extremely talented photographer. His work captures the essence of environments, evoking the nuanced emotions of places. His eye for lifestyle, fashion, architectural, landscape, and editorial photography makes him an indispensable part of the MoNA Life Team.
When not actively making client’s smile, Lucky spends time planning his off future homestead in Botswana. Lucky is also a family man who prides himself on being a good father to his two beautiful children.
Samantha Rollins
Samantha is a passionate yogi who aspires to transform and heal the body, mind, and spirit of others through the power of designing the built environment. She is motivated by inspiring others to live a mindful and present life.
With a background in construction and a degree in Civil Engineering, she has a passionate interest in the interconnectedness of sustainable architectural design with psychology and neuroscience. Her research focuses on the relationship between space and spirit through the 7-chakra system of the body and Vastu Shastra, considered the “yoga of architecture.”
