Last week my contractor husband Tom came home shaking his head about a job site where they’d just installed what looked like a kid’s bedroom set. “You should see this…
Had a client call me last month, pretty frustrated about furnishing her new place. She’d just gotten divorced and moved into a smaller house – needed furniture fast but didn’t…
You know what’s funny? I’ve been talking about toxic furniture materials for years, but nobody really listened until 2020 hit and suddenly everyone was trapped at home with their particleboard…
When my sister called me three years ago to tell me she was pregnant, I expected the usual excited chatter about baby names and nursery themes. Instead, her first concern…
The chemical smell hit me the second I walked into that furniture warehouse outside Charlotte last spring. You know that particular cocktail of off-gassing polyurethane and flame retardants that furniture…
Last week I got this email from a homeowner in Salem asking about bamboo flooring for their kitchen remodel. Started reading it and honestly? I wanted to throw my coffee…
Last Thursday I’m standing in my warehouse looking at a pallet of bamboo countertops that just came back from an angry customer. Delaminating after less than two years, adhesive smell…
I was standing next to this massive dumpster in Seattle last month, watching a crew tear down this old office building, and man… it just hit me wrong. Really wrong.…
So there I was last Tuesday, standing in this quarry outside Spokane, trying not to slip on wet basalt while Jim – the foreman who’s probably been doing this longer…
My phone buzzed at 6:47 AM last Tuesday with a text from Marcus, a contractor I’ve worked with for three years: “Need your brain. Client wants all eco materials but…
You know what’s funny? Five years ago, I’d roll my eyes whenever an architect mentioned green roofs. Too many variables, I’d think. Too many ways for contractors to screw things…