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

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

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?

This is how it begins. Brainstorming the mood, of a space. Imagining the feeling of it.

It was about two years ago that the first inkling of a tiny idea bubbled up.

It’s no secret that I’ve got a thing for houses. Large or small, old or new, I’m a student of their structure and story, of their place and time.

You’ve been anxiously awaiting my interpretation and plan for the mountain home guest suite!

Go ahead and begin with the rug.

It can be found in galleries and shops, museums and attics, yes. It can also be found in textiles, in the pages of vintage books, on your own scratch paper, in your camera roll.

Outside, spring sun and spring rain have fallen in turn; inside, notes, sketches, concepts, and ideas have fallen to scratch paper, computer screen, and drafting board.