There I was last month at 2 AM, squinting at my laptop screen trying to understand what this materials engineering professor from the National University of Singapore was telling me…
The old Victorian terraced house stood like a wounded soldier on the corner of Marchmont Street in Edinburgh, its sandstone facade blackened by decades of Scottish weather and urban neglect.…
Back when I started optimizing my own home office, I was pretty focused on my personal productivity metrics. But spending hours reading research about natural light and plants led me…
The coffee shop where I'm writing this has these massive floor-to-ceiling windows that face a small urban park. I've been coming here for three months now, and I can't help…
Standing in my friend Maria’s newly renovated kitchen last Tuesday, I couldn’t help but notice the irony. Here was someone who’d spent months agonizing over whether her countertops should be…
Yesterday morning, I found myself staring at a patch of moss growing through the crack in my apartment building's concrete entrance steps. Not exactly profound, I know, but something about…
Walking through my friend Sarah's new house last Thursday, I couldn't help but smile when she apologized for the "chaos" of boxes everywhere. What caught my attention wasn't the moving…
Last month I helped my friend Sarah furnish her new downtown loft, and it turned into quite the adventure. She'd just moved from New York and wanted to create a…
Last month, I found myself staring at the bland beige walls of a client's new home office, watching her unconsciously rub her temples while explaining how the space made her…
Last week I got this email from a homeowner in Salem asking about bamboo flooring for their kitchen remodel. Started reading it and honestly? I wanted to throw my coffee…