Author: thirdstoryies

(eighteen) December 2016. Ice and snow and frigid temperatures have arrived, and various cancellations mean that we have a quiet day ahead of us. I took this photo this morning, sun streaming through the ice covered windows. There’s nothing like a good, heavy cold snap to remind you that you live in an old house, despite all…

(seventeen) January 2013. Details, details. When I look around our house I see a hundred places where the old meets the new. It adds up to so many discussions, sketches, tests, mockups. Some of these spots likely required a special tool, or a second run to the hardware store, or maybe a third. We’ve tried our…

(sixteen) March 2008. For an advent series that features favorite corners of our house, you know I’m going to include a photo of my little kitchen counter. I’ve always been a pretty creative person, but when we built this kitchen from scratch sixteen years ago, I never considered our kitchen as creative space. We designed it to…