You know what I’ve been obsessing over lately? How our house changes throughout the year. I was sitting in the kitchen this morning, watching my daughter eat breakfast in this…
When I first started working from home during the pandemic, I literally set up my laptop on my kitchen table facing a brick wall. My one window shows nothing but…
I’ll be honest – a few years ago, if someone had told me I’d be writing about how plants and natural light could improve my kids’ mental health, I would…
Even in the heart of busy cities, with all their concrete and traffic noise, there’s something remarkable happening that most people walk right past. I’ve been noticing it more over…
I was at Target the other day – just picking up printer paper and somehow ending up with $150 worth of stuff I didn’t need – when I realized something.…
I never really thought about transition spaces until I started trying to figure out why my kids behaved so differently in different parts of our house. You know how some…
I’ve been working from home for six years now, and like most remote workers, I’ve gotten pretty obsessed with optimizing my workspace. But recently I started wondering about something bigger…
After living in the same house for nearly four decades, you start noticing things about nature that maybe passed you by when you were younger and busier. These days, spending…
This morning I was sitting on the back deck I rebuilt two years ago – had to replace the old composite boards with real cedar after my wife complained they…
Last spring, my wife and I took our first international trip in years – a visit to our son who’s working in the Middle East. While she was content spending…
# When Nature Meets Culture: What I’ve Learned About Respectful Biophilic Design I’ve been thinking a lot lately about something that never really occurred to me when I first started…
NEW_TITLE: The Sound of Nature Indoors: My Journey Into Creating Natural Soundscapes at Home I never really thought about sound as part of design until I moved into my current…
# Real Biophilic Design Success Stories That Actually Work I’ve been completely obsessed with these real-world biophilic design projects that actually worked, not just the ones that look good in…
I’ll be honest – when I first stumbled across articles about companies calculating the actual financial returns on making their offices more nature-connected, my initial thought was “typical corporate approach…
