The Green Room Blog

It’s been a long, lovely year, and we have plenty to celebrate for 2024.

Colour, place, and the value of better spaces.

Colour has a big visual, and emotional, impact on outdoor spaces. Here are some factors to consider.

Our coastlines are full of valuable hardwood that has stood the test of time. Its second life can be as spectacular as its first.

Guv, Furnitubes’ specification manager, has his fingers in many pies: client work, daydreaming, enjoying life with his three year old son, and figuring out a way to put furniture on the moon.

Design is a practice that's meant to best serve humanity. But what happens when demands are made to design in a way that's exclusionary?

Here are 15 psychological elements that play crucial roles in the design of public spaces and place-making, as we explore what it means to have somewhere to go beyond the home.

Where there once was a highway, now there’s a park. Where there once was an old park, now there’s an experience for the entire neighbourhood, with all the amenities you can hope for. Here is a story about park restoration, and all the shapes it can take.

Parks are made for people. But their story is more than planting the right flowers and trimming the trees every summer. Here’s what parks for the people really mean - and how they change a city into a better place.