When Charlotte and I began planning our kitchen renovation four years ago, I came home one evening to find her sitting at our dining table surrounded by interior magazines, meticulously…
The great British paradox: we spend all winter dreaming of long summer evenings in the garden, then when summer finally arrives, we discover it rains just as frequently but at…
I didn’t appreciate the power of decent window treatments until I spent a winter night in my friend Jason’s restored Victorian in Buffalo. The gorgeous, original single-pane windows were historically…
I’ve got a confession to make that might get my techie card revoked—I once installed a smart lightbulb system that was so complicated, I ended up keeping an old-school lamp…
I learned about kitchen lighting the hard way—standing in my sister Eliza’s 1960s ranch house at 10 PM, trying to help her husband Dave locate the source of a mysterious…
I have a theory that you can judge how seriously a builder took functionality by looking at the laundry room. In too many American homes—from starter ranches to million-dollar McMansions—the…
Listen, we need to talk about what’s happening behind your linen closet door. You know exactly what I’m talking about—that precarious tower of semi-folded sheets, the pillowcases that have somehow…
I knew I’d hit rock bottom when I couldn’t park my truck in the garage during the worst Minnesota blizzard in 15 years. There I was at 6 a.m., scraping…
Last winter, I lost our snow shovel. Not misplaced it—flat-out lost it in our own garage. This wasn’t some dainty little brush, mind you, but a full-sized, industrial-grade snow shovel…
My landscape edging education began with what I now call the Great Mulch Migration of 2016. Three weeks after installing new garden beds in our Minneapolis Tudor’s backyard—complete with the…
