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Rooms that were arranged rather than decorated. Restraint, materials, and the small decisions that make an ordinary room feel considered.

Oak bench and ceramic vase against a limewashed plaster wall in morning light

A rowhome in Lititz · 5 min read

The case for an empty wall

Restraint is the least expensive design decision available, and the one most often skipped.

A warm living room with an aged oak beam, stone hearth, plaster walls, linen upholstery and a few collected antique objects

Berks County · 8 min read

Iron, grain and linen: a Berks County room

Berks built things and grew things. Here is how to borrow that heritage for a warm, sophisticated interior without turning the house into a themed farmhouse.

A block of early twentieth century porch fronted homes with flower pots and a bicycle

West York, York County · 7 min read

West York, block by block

In a borough of porch fronted houses built within a couple of decades of each other, the differences that matter are small, physical and easy to see once you slow down.

A bright kitchen with pale walls, open shelves and a woman slicing fruit at a wood island

Lancaster County · 7 min read

The kitchen that stopped pretending to be a farmhouse

A renovation goes wrong when the room is asked to look like a place it is not. It goes right when someone decides what actually happens there at six in the evening.

Paint sample cards on a windowsill in cool daylight beside a mug and brush

Berks County · 6 min read

Paint, north light and a Berks County winter

The color that looked warm in the store will look green in February. Choosing paint is mostly choosing which light you believe.

Painted built in cabinetry along a narrow hallway with baskets and a stair beyond

Lancaster City · 7 min read

Storage as architecture

In a small house, storage is not furniture you add later. It is part of the structure, and treating it that way is the difference between cozy and cramped.

A wide sunlit hallway with a runner rug, a vase of flowers and doorways on both sides

Southeastern Pennsylvania · 6 min read

What a wide hallway is actually worth

Circulation space is the first thing value engineering removes and the last thing anyone notices missing until they live there. A case for the generous corridor.

Tile, wood and stone samples spread on a bright table with a notebook and coffee

Pennsylvania · 7 min read

Allowances and the quiet arithmetic of selections

The build budget you signed contains a set of guesses. Understanding which ones are guesses is how people avoid the conversation nobody enjoys in month five.

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Design Inspiration

The case for an empty wall

Iron, grain and linen: a Berks County room

West York, block by block

The kitchen that stopped pretending to be a farmhouse

Paint, north light and a Berks County winter

Storage as architecture

What a wide hallway is actually worth

Allowances and the quiet arithmetic of selections

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