Hey everyone, it's Elise Hugh with TED Talks Daily.

Continuing our TED Audio Collective Friday series, something a little different today.

A segment from another TED podcast, Ted Radio Hour, featuring designer Michael Murphy.

He explores how our spaces, homes, rooms, or spaces, can comfort, inspire, and sustain us.

If you enjoy it, find TED Radio Hour wherever you're listening to this and check out the full Power of Spaces episode for more on this topic.

It's the TED Radio Hour from NPR. I'm Anoush Zamorodi.

And I want to go back to the early 90s to Poughkeepsie, New York.

You know, when I was growing up there, every Saturday, basically, my father would get up really early and tinker and work on the house that we lived in.

This is Michael Murphy. And that house was an old Victorian.

It was designed by this incredible architect named Horace Trumbauer.

You know the kind with shingles and stained glass windows, a big wraparound porch.

But it was kind of falling apart.

Yes, sure.

It was very drafty. There was rot and woods. The porch of falling apart. Yes, sure. It was very drafty.

There was rot and woods.

The porch was falling down.

There was stained glass that needed to be fixed.

This is my worst nightmare, by the way.

But Michael's dad loved it.

And slowly restoring this house piece by piece became his ritual for years.

Nonstop, every Saturday throughout the year, just some project that would take, you know, years to figure out he would just kind of chip away at.

Even after Michael left for college and moved abroad until 2004. I got a call from my mother that my father was very sick with cancer and then I had to come back in order to be with him on

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