Restoration design interiors: Nature-Inspired Approaches
My coffee went cold while I was staring at the water damage in Mrs. Chen's Victorian dining room last Tuesday. She'd called me in after a pipe burst behind the…
Biophilic health: Benefits of Nature for Wellbeing
You know what hit me the other day while I was adjusting the grow lights in my apartment? I've been living essentially as a human guinea pig for the past…
Biophilic design for home: Bringing Nature Into Your Living Space
You know those mornings when you wake up and something just feels… off? I used to have way too many of those before I started really paying attention to how…
Finding Real Sustainable Materials Suppliers in Green Valley (Not the Marketing Fluff)
You know what drives me nuts? Walking into a Home Depot and watching someone ask about sustainable building materials, only to see the sales guy point them toward whatever has…
Affordable Modular Furniture Kits with Eco-Friendly Materials
My neighbour Jake called me last Tuesday, frustrated as hell. He'd just moved into a studio apartment downtown, and his girlfriend was moving in next month. "I need furniture that…
Regenerative design process: Steps for Designers
# 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…
Restorative sustainable design: Linking Healing and Green Building
I've been thinking a lot lately about something that happened during my consultation with a rehabilitation centre in Portland last month. The director, Maria, walked me through their newly renovated…
Biophilic design theory: The Science of Nature in Design
The other day, I was sitting in a sterile conference room on the fourteenth floor of a glass tower in downtown Phoenix, trying to explain to a hospital executive why…
Why I Went Back to School to Learn What Interior Design School Never Taught Me
Standing in that graduate program coordinator’s office at Parsons last spring, I felt like I was speaking a foreign language. “So you want to study… sustainable design?” she said, squinting…
Eco Friendly Furniture Design: Trends and Innovation
Last Tuesday, I watched a client cry over a coffee table. Not because it was ugly – actually, it was stunning. Hand-carved walnut with these gorgeous live edges that seemed…