
ABOUT
THE ATELIER
Maike Kristina Harich designs gardens and outdoor spaces in her studio, paying particular attention to small areas in urban environments and creating a harmonious connection between a building and its surroundings.
Founded in Bremen, a harbour city in the North of Germany, in 2008 as a design studio, since 2024 specialized entirely in gardens and outdoor spaces. She works on projects and serve clients throughout Germany and Europe.
"With everything I create, I want to make people's surroundings more beautiful and beneficial. Whether through inspiration in my journal , through advice on the natural and beneficial design of gardens and outdoor spaces, or through handcrafted products made from natural materials."
I have often experienced firsthand how much the quality of life, and therefore the overall quality of living, improves when we surround ourselves more with nature and live in harmony with it. With plants around our house that welcome us when we come home and that we can see from inside. With natural and healthy materials like wood, natural stone, or clay paints, and with indoor and outdoor spaces designed to meet our needs, providing us with peace. This is restorative, sustainable, and also of high aesthetic value .
Maike Kristina Harich
ABOUT MAIKE KRISTINA HARICH
Maike Kristina Harich is a garden and exterior designer. With her atmospheric and artistic style, she designs visions for more nature in outdoor spaces, creating environments that enhance well-being and the quality of life.
In her garden coaching and design consultations, she demonstrates the creative potential inherent in small city gardens and unused outdoor spaces, such as those of commercial buildings, to create oases for the eye and soul. Her clients can then either implement these design concepts themselves or engage a professional garden and landscape design company. Maike offers also a design consulting services during this phase.
Maike also has an online shop with illustrations and high-quality stationery featuring nature motifs, which she has drawn and designed, as well as beautiful items for the home and garden curated by her - all handmade by artisans from natural materials.
And she regularly writes in her journal about atmospheric spaces, living with more nature, and about inspiring people who have created beautiful, livable, and sustainable places and projects.

Vita
Nature, space, and people – these three elements have accompanied Maike Kristina Harich throughout her life and are now interwoven in her designs. She began with people. As a trained communications consultant, she founded her own agency in 1998 at the young age of 23, built it up over the years, and, together with her team, advised national and international clients on interpersonal communication. She was a lecturer at the University of Bremen, among other institutions, and held various board positions in business associations. Years later, she decided to sell her agency, stepping away from the relentless pursuit of "higher, faster, further" and establishing her own studio to have more freedom and space for creativity. Throughout her life, she has maintained a close connection to nature, roaming through meadows and fields as a child. Even later, in her hectic job as an agency head, she sought balance in the tranquility of walks through the North German countryside, riding her horse, or by focusing on a lifestyle as close to nature as possible, for example, in her diet. With the founding of her studio, nature also entered her professional life. This manifested in nature illustrations, linocuts with botanical motifs, and abstract landscapes, which she drew and painted. Magazines such as Homes & Gardens, Landlust, and Wohnen & Garten featured her editions. And so, she found, and continues to find, a loyal clientele in a wide variety of countries. At the same time, in response to requests, Maike Kristina Harich began to apply her atmospheric style to three-dimensional designs, creating her first interior spaces. Always with a focus on nature, whether through natural materials in the interior or by integrating the garden into a cohesive aesthetic design. When she designed her first garden, it was like "coming home," as if it had always been the goal of her career path—with a few twists and turns along the way. Simultaneously, at the request of many, Maike Kristina Harich began to work in three dimensions, creating her first interior spaces. In the following years, she completed, among other things, a certificate course in spatial design, participated in various international training courses in garden and landscape design, as she was particularly inspired by English and Dutch garden designers, also learned a lot about architectural psychology and healing architecture, and finally specialized entirely in the design of outdoor spaces and gardens.

SHOP
Minimalist, Nordic, calm – that best describes the style of Maike Kristina Harich's illustrations and paintings.
The designs are always inspired by nature. This results in, for example, linocut prints or – a particular passion – exclusive greeting cards as a tribute to analog writing culture. Some are unique pieces, while others are printed in small series.
In this way, Maike combines art with craftsmanship and creates unique pieces that have already been featured in magazines such as Homes & Gardens, Landlust or Wohnen & Garten.
In addition, the shop offers special objects from other craftspeople and small manufacturers – sometimes from their collections and sometimes designed by Maike and produced in external workshops.
Everything is made from natural materials such as handmade paper, linen, clay, wool, or wood. Always with the aim of creating a feeling of well-being and joy.
You can find the currently available items in the online shop.
Selection from our shop
JOURNAL
In her journal, Maike writes about places, ideas, and people that connect nature and space. In this way, a collection of inspirations and stories will gradually emerge, aiming to motivate us to bring more nature into our living spaces.
Subscribers to newsletter (free registration below) receive a summary of all published articles by email 3-5 times a year.
From spring 2026 onwards, there will also be regular short "Natural Living Letters" which can be subscribed to for free via Substack.
We only work with people who share our values. Above all, decency, respect, tolerance, a friendly and peaceful approach in word and deed, and always a good dose of humor.





















