A primer on design choices.

Back to pencil and paper. Back to revisions. Back to another early morning, sitting on the sofa with a cup of tea, looking out toward my garden space, reimagining.

It’s been nearly two years in the planning and design phase, and in a few short weeks, demo will finally be underway.

Tasteful, timeless, quality, always. More/Less is a primer on design choices, because it’s helpful to know where we might spend and how we might save.

There’s a bank of drawers in the kitchen. Four drawers to keep the flow flowing and the working kitchen working.

I’m still layering on the wool, still walking through knee-deep snow, but my mind is on this summer’s garden

Gracious, there’s something about late winter and early spring that makes us want to shake things out and freshen things up in our homes

It’s something that comes of friendship and creativity and foraging gone wild. In August she messaged me with words something like this

I love how fall lets you start again. Start baking bread, start making soup. Start a new knitting project. Start what feels like a slower pace, an amble toward hibernation.

I cracked an orange-yolked egg from the neighbor hens into the bowl of the food processor, added some light olive oil, pink salt, and mustard powder, put the lid on and gave it a quick pulsing blitz.

In your pencil-to-paper moments of late, when you're marking down ideas of things for gifting and things for receiving, when you're listing what, exactly, you might welcome into your life and lifestyle this holiday season, have you ever thought of including the word home?

Something about the simplicity of the wood in its natural state. As if there was no stain, no varnish, no layers. Naked and beautiful.