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Each journal follows the room from what we inherited through the decisions, surprises, and details that shaped the finished space. Start wherever your curiosity takes you.
The Guest Rooms
The Kentucky and The Paris — two personal spaces for visiting friends and family, with collected art and thoughtful comforts.
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The Kitchen
A floor that cracked and crumbled underfoot turned a cosmetic redo into structural repair — and a chance to rebuild the kitchen around the way we actually live.
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The Library
CJ pictured bookcases around the wide doorway before there was ever a drawing. A year later, that idea became the room’s defining architecture.
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The Pantry
It started as laundry in exactly the wrong place. Moving it downstairs made room for storage, color, brass, warm wood — and a lot of lemons.
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Front Landscape
The house already had presence. The front garden did not. We built the structure, softness, and sense of arrival the façade had been missing.
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These stories are still being lived, adjusted, decorated, and occasionally argued over. They’ll join the journal when there is a story worth telling.
Living Room
Color, furniture, fireplace details, and the pursuit of a room that feels historic, comfortable, and a little bit dramatic.
Story in progressSeasonal House
Halloween, Christmas, porch moments, and the seasonal traditions that have become part of how we experience the house.
Story in progressDetails & Small Projects
Lighting, hardware, garden experiments, and the small decisions that somehow take just as much thought as the big renovations.
Story in progress