How to Create a Sensory Room at Home (DIY vs Hire)
The idea of setting up a sensory room at home ...
What is a Sensory Room? A Trauma-Informed Explanation
Most spaces ask a lot from the body. Bright lights ...
Sensory Integration Design Principles: Creating a Home That Supports Highly Sensitive People
Your Home Shapes How You Feel Before You Realize It ...
How Sensory Adaptation Influences Your Emotional Response to Home Colors and Atmospheres
Your Home Is Quietly Training Your Nervous System Have you ...
Interior Design for PTSD: How To Manage Anxiety
Last week, Brian had a panic attack in ...
What Is a Liminal Space?
My kid pipes up at the oddest times. She ...
Designing For The Public
Our patrons kept falling. We couldn't stop it from ...
Philadelphia Patio: Before and After
Bye-bye, Cinder Blocks A contractor friend sent me ...
Is Your Space Trauma Informed?
When your brain goes through extreme trauma, it changes. ...
The Eccentric Genius Habitat Intervention: Not Another Self-Help Book
Sometime in the mid twenty-teens I started to realize ...
Before and After: Interior Design Transformations
Transforming your space through sensory interior design is ...
Sensory Accessibility: How to Solve a Problem
Why is sensory accessibility a problem? And how do we ...
How to Make Decisions
Last weekend I needed antihistamine tablets and and excuse to ...
Highly Sensitive and Neurodivergent: Complementary Superpowers
Leif looking down at his three-year-old niece, Olivia, November ...
Sleep Deprivation Is Bad Medicine
Recently I visited a friend in the ICU, recovering ...
Highly Sensitive Is Not Dysregulated
Picture this: you have a colleague with a hair-trigger temper. ...
Are You Breathing Poisonous Air?
For one liter of water a week, this fiddle ...
The Right Color Is Not (Always) The Pretty One
Perhaps the most beautiful shade of blue I've ever ...
Sybaritic Disease Control: The Case for Spa-Like Hospitals
Last month I finally got covid. Because of vaccines, it ...
Fluorescent Lights Are The Devil
The frosted, upward-facing sconces of this chandelier bounce light ...
Remembering Who You Are
The image on the left was created in 1654, ...
How Noise Affects Your Health
Chronic loud noise is more than an annoyance. Living under ...
Neurodiversity and Inclusion at Work
Panel discussion on Diversity, Equity, Inclusion and Belonging, at ...
Why Highly Sensitive People Hate Dating
Ever had a splendid first date with a Perfectly Nice ...
Neurodiversity At Work: Teams With Superpowers
Teams which include neurodiverse professionals are 30% more productive, ...
Decision Fatigue: Why Your Brain Gets Tired
Never schedule your parole hearing right before lunch. Decision ...
How Not To Focus
Sam Bankman-Fried, former CEO and indicted con man: “I’m infamous ...
Architectural Digest Gets a Clue: Neurodiversity Is Key to Interior Design
Original artwork by Lena Helen. Orchid cultivated by Waldor ...
Yes, Your Surroundings Can Make You Smarter. (Or not.)
No Stupid Questions podcast drops some hefty research data ...
Native Perennial Gardens: 1. HOAs: 0
Tiny urban perennial gardens attract wildlife, pollinators, clean the ...
Genius Is A Package Deal
Once upon a time I was in the room when ...
How To End Plagues: Clean Your Air
Once upon a time, I melted down in a ...
Can Brown Noise Help ADHD?
It's going viral on TikTok: people with ADHD are ...
Your Brain On Clutter
It may seem intuitive, but research proves it: physical ...
Tolerance Is Not Inclusion
'Tolerance'! The horror! Who in the world wants ...
Trenches
"Startin' riots with those looks," said the person behind the counter. "I was downtown last week," I declared...
Sensory Architecture: A Seamless Experience
Today most buildings are designed in pieces, by specialists who rarely talk to one another. Architect, engineer, electrician, plumber, contractor, interior designer: each designer's expertise is abstracted from the specific environment, and from the rest of the design.
How to Grow Big Houseplants
The light and humidity in the corner of your living room bear no resemblance to that of a West African rain forest, and you cannot fool the fiddle leaf fig tree into thinking so.
From Grunge to Gorgeous
March of 2020: lockdown. What I crave more than anything: a garden. What I’ve got: 100 square feet of broken concrete, surrounded by a broken fence, looking onto a vacant lot which the guy down the block insists is his. (It’s not.) I’ve gotten into a guerrilla gardening war over this lot, and lost.
Why Get Political? A Love Letter.
“Don’t mix business with politics.” If you follow Practical ...
