About the Folks Episode 4!

It’s Monday, so gather the family around the tube for About the Folks! Today we present the fourth and final episode in our 4-part docuseries on my friend John’s 1723 stone house. Having walked through bedrooms, bathrooms, the kitchen, the living room—even the attic!—we’re circling back to the first floor to talk all about the amazing dining room, complete...

Feb 2022

About the Folks Episode 3!

It’s Monday morning, and you know what that means!!! Or, wait, do you? This is still pretty new for all of us. The third episode of About the Folks is here for your viewing pleasure! In this episode we explore one of my favorite parts of any old house—the attic—and then head back downstairs to check out the living room and perhaps the most perfect...

Feb 2022

About the Folks Episode 2!

Hello hello! It’s another release day! About the Folks Episode 2 has arrived! What is this? Let me tell you. About the Folks is a new semi-regular series wherein I force my friends to display their homes and sparkling personalities for the entire internet. The original idea was to do this in blog posts—relying mostly on photos and a brief video segment—but...

Feb 2022

About the Folks Episode 1!

It’s today, it’s today! After many months of scheming and plotting and shooting and editing, Juliet and I are so excited to put this project out into the world. This is just the first of four episodes, in what I hope will be a regular series where you’ll get to know some really cool houses and the incredible owners behind them…who also happen to be...

Jan 2022

Introducing: About the Folks!

For years now, I’ve had this idea about doing something on my blog other than just talk about myself and whatever I’m doing. Enough about me*. Let’s dish about other people. (*I recognize I also owe you updates about me. life has been insane and I have a lot to tell you.) When I moved to Kingston in 2013, I had barely spent any time here and didn’t...

Jan 2022

Finding the One: My New Sofa!

This post is in partnership with Article, who generously provided the featured furniture! Remember how we all just lived through a pandemic that forced us to stay in our homes by ourselves all the time? What a time to be alive. For many people, this aspect of the pandemic was a waking nightmare or, at least, a big adjustment. For me, it wasn’t all...

Jul 2021

Remember That Time I Built a Whole House?

Some of you know this story so I’ll try to keep the history lesson brief: way back in 2015, I was hired to fix up a sweet funny little house in the woods that a couple friends of mine—Adriana and Barry—had recently purchased. This was intended to be a fairly straightforward undertaking—eliminate a weird half-bathroom, enlarge and replace the kitchen,...

May 2021

7 Years in Kingston! Revisiting the Kitchen & Pantry!

I get asked about my kitchen…kind of a lot. It’s been so long since it’s made an appearance on the blog that I understand why you’d think it must be done by now, and I’m just holding out on you. Don’t you know I require way too much attention to secretly renovate my kitchen without shouting at the whole internet about it? We’ll work on these trust...

Oct 2020

7 Years in Kingston! Revisiting the Dining Room

Let’s talk about the next room in this riveting limited series where we tour every room in my house, 7 years into the renovation. Today—the dining room! One of the several reasons I fell in love with this house was all of the natural light flooding in from the many large old windows, but the dining room was an exception. A large (old, but heavily...

Oct 2020

7 Years in Kingston! Revisiting the Living Room

I gotta pick up the damn pace on these posts! Let’s talk about my living room, which has undergone some recent changes to celebrate 7 years in this kooky house! It’s #2 on the plan above so you can stay oriented. We covered the hallway (#1) and half-bath (#9) a few weeks ago! Here she is when I first bought the house! Acoustic tile drop ceiling,...

Sep 2020