About

I help people build homes that protect the lives already living there.

An off-grid cabin tucked into dense forest beside a winding river in the Olympic foothills.

A hand-drawn fox among rocks and native plants.

I’m Ash.

I trained as an interior architect. I live off-grid in the Olympic foothills, in a landscape I share with foxes, owls, salamanders, and a lot of very opinionated songbirds.

Somewhere along the way, I noticed something my training never mentioned: every home I helped design was quietly asking someone else to give something up. A nesting cavity. A migration path. A quiet, dark night sky.

I didn’t want to keep building that way. So I started tracing it — one choice at a time, from the drawing board to the animal it eventually touches.

That tracing became Wildlifeel.

A hand-drawn owl and salamander sharing forest-floor habitat.

What I believe

A home isn’t only shelter for us. It’s downstream of a forest, a river, a mountain — of countless lives that made it possible to live here at all.

So the goal was never to build less. It’s to build like a good neighbor — with the same care we’d want shown to us.

A hand-drawn river landscape revealing trees, roots, rocks, and mountain habitat as one connected system.

What Wildlifeel
actually does

I teach people to trace the ripple — from a single design choice to the animal it eventually reaches — through Field Notes, the Method, and the Library.

And I do it directly with clients through a Wildlife Impact Assessment or a full Conservation-Based Design engagement.