Last month I found myself standing in a furniture showroom in Charlotte, North Carolina, watching a salesperson enthusiastically pitch a "sustainable" bedroom set that had traveled roughly 8,000 miles from…
My phone rang at 7:30 AM last Tuesday – never a good sign. It was Margaret, the facilities director at Riverside Recovery Centre, and she sounded frazzled. "We've got a…
I'll never forget the look of horror on my client Sarah's face when she discovered her brand-new bedroom set was slowly poisoning her family. The off-gassing from the particle board…
Walking through Patricia Urquiola's latest showroom in Milan last month, I couldn't shake the feeling that something profound was shifting in luxury furniture design. Here was a space filled with…
Yesterday I found myself crawling under my kitchen table, checking out the particleboard core of what I'd thought was solid wood when I bought it five years ago. You know…
Working as a planner in Seattle, you’d think I wouldn’t have much to say about desert landscaping. But here’s the thing – I spend a lot of time thinking about…
You know what struck me about my neighbour’s Victorian house? The crown molding was practically falling off the walls, and her mahogany dining table had water stains that looked like…
Walking through a client’s home last Tuesday, I couldn’t help but smile at what I was seeing. Here was someone who’d actually managed to pull off something most people think…
You know what's funny about outdoor entertaining? Everyone obsesses over the perfect grill or the most Instagram-worthy fire pit, but then they plop down furniture that looks like it crawled…
You know what’s funny? I’ve been in the building materials business for over thirty years, and I thought I understood greenwashing pretty well. Then I started paying attention to outdoor…