You know, I never thought I’d become the person contractors call when they need advice on office furniture, but here we are. Last month I got this frantic call from…
I never thought I’d be the parent who gets excited about classroom lighting, but here we are. Last month, I found myself sitting in my daughter’s third-grade classroom in Portland,…
You know what I never expected to become an expert on? Restoration design centers. But when you’re a dad trying to fix up a 1960s split-level while learning about biophilic…
So I got this weird call from my daughter’s school counselor last month. She mentioned they’d been looking into what they called “environmental factors” affecting kids with anxiety and ADHD,…
I keep coming back to something that happened when I visited the Amazon Spheres in Seattle with my kids last year. We were there for vacation, and I figured I’d…
I’m standing in my kitchen at 6:30 AM, trying to pack lunches while my coffee gets cold, and I’m completely distracted by how the morning light is hitting the herb…
I was scrolling through one of those parenting forums at 2am last week (don’t judge – my son had strep and wasn’t sleeping), when I came across this incredible story…
I never really understood how much my workspace affected me until I started working from home during the pandemic. Like most parents, I’d cobbled together a “home office” in whatever…
You know what’s weird? Before I had kids, I never really thought about why certain spaces felt good and others felt… off. Like, I knew our old downtown condo felt…
You know that feeling when you walk into a space and your whole body just… relaxes? I experienced this so powerfully last month when I took my daughter to a…
I never expected to get so excited about office buildings and airports, but here we are. Last month, I finally made it to Seattle to see Amazon’s famous Spheres in…
I never thought I’d be the guy giving home design advice, but here we are. After years of trial and error – and I mean *lots* of errors – trying…
I’ve been obsessing over London’s approach to bringing nature into urban spaces ever since I stumbled across an article about their “nature deficit disorder” initiatives. As someone who’s spent the…
I never thought I’d spend my evening reading industrial engineering papers about air pollution control systems, but here we are. It all started when I was researching air quality impacts…
So I’ve been going down this rabbit hole lately about something called regenerative design, and it’s kind of blowing my mind. It started when I was researching ways to make…