Okay, so I keep seeing this word “biophilic” everywhere – on design blogs, in Instagram captions about fancy offices with living walls, thrown around by people who clearly have way…
I’m sitting in my home office this morning, looking at the small air quality monitor on my desk that’s showing steadily improving numbers since I installed those plants two years…
I never expected to get emotionally affected by architecture, but there I was last month in the Amazon Spheres in Seattle, watching office workers naturally drift toward the curved glass…
When my wife and I first moved into this house back in ’87, the previous owners had installed one of those big security floodlights on the garage. The thing could…
So I’ve been thinking a lot lately about this whole obsession we have with trying to recreate jungle vibes everywhere we live, regardless of whether it makes any sense. It…
I never thought I’d be growing mushrooms in my basement at age seventy-two, but here we are. Started about two years ago when our daughter sent me an article about…
When I first started reading about something called “biophilic design” a few years back, I’ll admit I was skeptical. It sounded like one of those fancy design trends that come…
I stumbled onto the nature-creativity connection completely by accident while trying to solve a productivity problem I’d been tracking for months. My marketing analysis work requires a lot of creative…
When you walk into any building – whether it’s a doctor’s office, a business, or even our church – the first space you encounter sets the tone for everything that…
You know, after thirty-eight years in the same house, I’ve given a lot of thought to stairs. Not just because mine are getting harder to climb – though there’s that…
After spending the last few years modifying our house for my wife’s health needs, I’ve learned a lot about how much our environment affects our daily wellbeing. The kitchen, especially,…
After eight years of modifying our home and yard to better support my wife’s health needs following her stroke, I’ve come to understand something that should have been obvious all…
I’ve been tracking my workspace productivity metrics for years now, and about 18 months ago I started noticing something interesting in my data. On days when I worked from coffee…
After my wife’s stroke eight years ago, we both needed to find new ways to stay active and manage stress. Her physical therapist recommended gentle yoga, and I started doing…
Okay, so I’ve been thinking a lot about fabrics lately, which is honestly not something I expected to care about when I first moved to this tiny studio. But after…