My kitchen table’s got legs made from old Douglas fir beams that used to hold up some warehouse down in Portland’s Pearl District. The top? That’s bamboo plywood I’ve been…
Walking through my local plant nursery last Tuesday, I overheard a conversation that stopped me in my tracks. A woman was explaining to her friend that she'd killed "every plant…
Last week I’m standing in this architect’s office downtown, watching her flip through a product catalogue while explaining to a client how their new office building is going to be…
I never thought I’d become the kind of person who gets excited about stripping wallpaper, but here we are. Last month I was helping our neighbours with their 1920s bungalow…
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,…
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…
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…
Walking into the lobby of a tech startup in Seattle last month, I couldn't help but cringe at the scene before me. Beautiful reclaimed wood conference table? Cheque. Living moss…
Last Tuesday, I found myself standing in the mechanical room of a newly completed office building in downtown Portland, staring at something I hadn't seen before. The walls were lined…
My neighbour knocked on my door last Tuesday holding a dying fiddle leaf fig, looking absolutely defeated. "I thought I had a green thumb," she said, "but everything I touch…