Would you renovate to make space for more houseplants? Oh good, me too! In 2017 I found my dream home, a 100 year old mercantile store in the heart of Southern Utah. For 5 years we DIYed and renovated an old crumbly building and created a houseplant haven. Plants need light, and this was as... See more

One of the most stunning libraries in the U.S. was designed by a world-famous architect—because a monk simply asked. In the early 1960s, Father Barnabas, head librarian at Mt. Angel Abbey—a Catholic monastery 40 miles south of Portland—began campaigning for a new library. Their last had burned, and this time, they... See more

Spring has sprung, and flowers are in bloom. If you’d like nothing more than to stop and smell the roses, there’s no better place than the Reader Rock Garden in Calgary 🤩⁠ ⁠ The passion project of Calgary Superintendent, William Roland Reader, this national historic site has a collection of over 4,000 plants from far and... See more

It started life as a quarry, then a military dump, now, remarkably, is a home. Ca’n Terra by @anton_ensamble is an experimental space where a home is excavated rather than constructed. The void left behind by the extraction of Mares stone on the island of Menorca was cleverly, and minimally, repurposed as a domestic space. The result is an almost... See more