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Eco-Styling Your Garden

By phil walters Oct 29, 2025

A garden can be a lot of things. A place to sit with a coffee. A spot to let the dog run wild. A patch of dirt where you try...

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How to Join the Art Project

By phil walters Oct 20, 2025

When you install a Metalbird, you’re not just adding art to your backyard. You’re joining the world’s largest outdoor art project. That might sound like marketing spin. It’s not. It’s...

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Five Ways to Help Our Feathered Mates (And Why It  Matters)

Five Ways to Help Our Feathered Mates (And Why It Matters)

By phil walters Oct 14, 2025

If you’ve ever paused mid-walk because a bird sang something too beautiful to ignore, or stood frozen as a pudgy pigeon crash-landed into a tree like it just learned to...

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Why We Keep It Local (Even When It Costs More)

By phil walters Oct 3, 2025

Let’s be straight about this: It would be cheaper to make Metalbirds overseas. Cheaper to outsource the steel. Cheaper to mass-produce. Cheaper to ship in pallets of pre-cut birds from...

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The One That Always Sells Out

By phil walters Sep 30, 2025

Some birds are niche. Some birds are personal. And some birds? They fly off the shelves faster than we can cut them. Enter the Hummingbird. Why the Hummingbird? We’re not...

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Where Memory Takes Flight

By phil walters Sep 18, 2025

When someone you love is gone, the world keeps turning. But certain places don’t feel the same anymore. The garden chair they always sat in. The walking track they loved....

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Light, Shadow, Steel

By phil walters Sep 3, 2025

When people ask where Metalbird designs come from, I could talk about birds. I could talk about steel. I could talk about workshops and prototypes. But really, it starts with...

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Designed for Transitions

By phil walters Aug 22, 2025

Life changes. That’s the one guarantee. Sometimes we leap into it... new job, new house, new love. Sometimes we get shoved... grief, loss, endings we didn’t ask for. Either way,...

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This Isn’t Just A Product

By phil walters Aug 12, 2025

Metalbird isn’t just something you buy. It’s something you do. When you hammer a bird into your fencepost, your garden, your balcony rail, you’re not just installing art. You’re becoming...

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We Know Our Welders by Name

By phil walters Aug 1, 2025

Most companies don’t know who makes their products. They know the factory name. Maybe the supplier contact. Probably a spreadsheet. At Metalbird, we know the people behind the steel. We...

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Flight Marks the Moment

By phil walters Jul 29, 2025

Some birds sit still. They perch, they nest, they hold their ground. But not the Swallow. The Swallow is always moving. It swoops. It circles. It leaves and returns, again...

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Better Than a Candle, Apparently

By phil walters Jul 17, 2025

We love a good scented candle. Who doesn’t? But when it comes to gifts that land well, the reviews are in... and let’s just say the birds are winning. We’ve...

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