Apparently I get a thrill out of sifting through others’ weird old rubbish, because my house sure has a lot of it. We’ve bought a handful of brand-new furnishings for our house, like our dining table and design-victim shell chairs, but I like thrifting for interesting secondhand pieces where possible. Continue reading »
The fireplace in our study is all fixed up, and it even provides heat now! We gave this disused fireplace some cosmetic updates, and last week we had a heat pump installed inside of it. ICEBOX NO MORE.
The first stage in fixing up this fireplace was to build a brick hearth at its base. Continue reading »
I’m the opposite of homesick right now. Jamie and I are in New York, and concepts like “summer” and “Australia” feel so distant and foreign. Not in a bad way, mind you. I’m just so immersed in my immediate environs (which is: my friend Stephen’s teeny-weeny NYC apartment) that it feels weird to think that I have this whole house, waiting for me, existing. Continue reading »