We’re officially counting down the last couple of days before the yurt shipment arrives next week. In the meanwhile, check out this article from Mother Earth News about a man who realized his dreams by building a...

Greetings everyone! Apologies for my small winter sabbatical that was unannounced and unplanned – but, hey, such is life! Anyways, now that we’re rolling into spring I’m excited to write about a new project that’s on hand and in motion: a yurt studio being built on my...

The Untold Beauty of Plywood I recently discovered a new trend – both in the green building movement and in more posh, design circles – that plywood is ‘fair game.’ Plywood is generally considered a very unfinished, unsightly you could say, building material. But new...

Baby it’s cold outside… Notes on the nature and influence of heat.   Humans are pretty damn fickle about thermal comfort. We’re not comfortable below 65 degrees F or above 80 degrees F. That’s only a 15 degree range of physical ease – which through an...

Who doesn’t love a tree house? The stuff childhood memories are made from! Check out these images from the superb book Tree House Living: 50 Innovative Designs by Alain Laurens, Daniel Dufour, Ghislan Andre, and La Cabane Penche with photography by Vincent...