You know what I’ve learned after thirty-eight years in the same house? There’s a big difference between contractors who just fix things and craftsmen who understand what they’re working with.…
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…
# Why Some Spaces Make You Feel Like Crap (And What I Learned From Fixing Mine) Yesterday morning, I was messing around with my little tabletop fountain again – you…
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,…
Last month I found myself 47 stories up in Milan’s Bosco Verticale, pressed against floor-to-ceiling windows while watching maintenance crews tend to living walls that cascade down like green waterfalls.…
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 was staring at my productivity spreadsheet last Tuesday when I had this realization that’s been bothering me for weeks. After six years of remote work and three years of…
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…
About six months ago, I was helping my neighbor Marcus install a new garbage disposal in his condo kitchen. This was a gorgeous space – he’d spent more on those…
# What I Learned About the Regenerative Design Process After Accidentally Killing My Yard So this is going to sound ridiculous, but my obsession with regenerative design started because I…
I’ve been tracking biophilic design trends for the past few months—partly for my own workspace optimization research, partly because I’m genuinely curious about how quickly this stuff is moving from…
Okay, so I’ve been getting DMs asking about regenerative design PDFs pretty much daily lately, and I totally understand why. When you’re trying to figure out how to make your…
You know, when you’ve lived in the same house as long as I have, you start to notice things about how spaces affect people. My wife and I have been…
I was scrolling through urban planning Twitter last week when I saw a thread that made me stop mid-scroll: a landscape architect talking about a housing development in Portland where…