The Map is Mostly Water

Growing a Hornbeam Hedge

What's involved and the cost

Apr 12 • 

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February 2025

Why make something beautiful?

on starting a rose garden

Feb 28 • 

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April 2024

Why Buy a House (or Land)?

A lesson in ignoring economics

Apr 15, 2024 • 

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July 2023

Everything I know about gardening

I have been sharing pictures of flowers growing around my house, mostly little things like poppies and roses, or my fields, and several people have…

Jul 2, 2023 • 

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April 2023

Designing a New Old Home: Light

In winter I get up at night

Apr 12, 2023 • 

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November 2022

[subscribers only] Ask Me Anything about My Home (or Yours)

This is mostly in relation to Designing a New Old Home, landscaping, and timber framing a Goose Palace, though if you have other questions feel …

Nov 18, 2022 • 

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Designing a New Old Home: Materials and Hardware

After your floorplan, and along with your use of sunlight, the materials you choose will make the biggest difference in the mood that inhabits your…

Nov 16, 2022 • 

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Sketches of Beauty, Shades of Remoteness

A little moth asked the other day, what makes something beautiful?

Nov 12, 2022 • 

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October 2022

Building The Goose Palace

The man who is most likely to ruin the place he loves is exactly the man who loves it with a reason.

Oct 25, 2022 • 

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September 2022

Designing a New Old Home: The Elements

Heating and Cooling and Airflow Ensuring your house works well with the natural world is one of the most crucial parts of designing a home. Like I wrote…

Sep 18, 2022 • 

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Designing a New Old Home: Defining Constraints

Designing a New Old Home series, Table of Contents

Sep 5, 2022 • 

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August 2022

Designing a New Old Home: Research, Sketch, Collect

Designing a New Old Home series, Table of Contents

Aug 24, 2022 • 

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