Walking through a Home Depot last Tuesday, I couldn't help but notice how dramatically the building materials section has changed. Where conventional pressure-treated lumber and fiberglass insulation once dominated entire…
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…
Listen, after eighteen years of specifications writing and researching building products, I’m gonna let you in on something that drives me absolutely crazy. People keep telling me they can’t afford…
I was sitting in a client's living room last month, watching their toddler crawl across what they thought was "natural" hardwood flooring. The finish looked gorgeous – that perfect satin…
Standing in a muddy construction site last Tuesday, watching a crew install plastic playground equipment that looked like it came from a candy factory, I felt that familiar knot in…
Last Tuesday morning, I was standing in my neighbour's half-gutted kitchen when she asked me a question that made me pause mid-sentence. "I keep seeing these ads for bamboo everything,"…
Last month I walked into a hotel lobby in Portland that literally stopped me in my tracks. Not because it was fancy or Instagram-perfect – honestly, from the outside it…
My friend Sarah nearly fainted when she walked into my newly renovated kitchen last Tuesday. Not because of the design – though I'll admit the living wall behind the sink…
You know what's funny? I used to scroll through Pinterest boards of stunning biophilic interiors and think they were completely unattainable. All those million-dollar homes with floor-to-ceiling living walls and…
I was standing in what used to be a magnificent Victorian row house in Baltimore last Tuesday, watching demolition crews tear out decades of well-intentioned but misguided renovations. The owners…