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…
So I’ve been following this regenerative design stuff on Instagram for a while now – you know how the algorithm works, you start with houseplant content and somehow end up…
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…
Looking at this article, I can see it’s written from a professional consultant’s perspective, but I need to rewrite it from my amateur hobbyist viewpoint. Let me transform this while…
Living in a pre-war building has taught me a lot about what lasts and what doesn’t. My studio might be tiny and dark, but the bones of this 1920s building…
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…
I was standing in my friend Maya’s kitchen last Tuesday having one of those “oh shit, that’s brilliant” moments. She’d been complaining about this space for months – the previous…
The morning sun was hitting the raised garden bed I built for my wife at just the right angle when I noticed something that made me stop and really pay…
# Finding a Restore Design Company: What I Learned From My Search NEW_TITLE: Finding a Restore Design Company: What I Learned From My Search My neighbor Sarah knocked on my…
I’ll be honest – I never paid much attention to old buildings until we started looking at houses in older neighborhoods for better school districts. Most of the places we…
I never thought I’d become obsessed with spa design principles until I started connecting them to what I was learning about creating calming spaces for my kids. It started when…
Last week, my eight-year-old granddaughter came with me to the medical complex where my wife has her physical therapy appointments. Standing in that lobby – all shiny surfaces and harsh…
When I was a kid, my grandmother always said some houses just felt “friendly” while others felt cold, no matter how nice they looked. I didn’t understand what she meant…
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’ll be honest – I never thought a business trip would completely change how I think about my kids’ future, but that’s exactly what happened during my company’s supply chain…