Albion Gould
Always searching for adventure and thread.
You know how you always wish you had more time, or at least a few extra hours to work on the growing list of projects on your wish list? Scott and I only have the weekends together to work on house projects. On a normal Saturday morning, Scott heads out to mow our lawn. I’ll …
Madeline, Pippi, and Alice all share a room (and yes, it actually works for us!). They are now 6, 5, and 3, so making a functional but pretty room can be a bit of a challenge. They’re on the young side, so I’m well aware that their tastes will change in the coming years as …
I’ve always dreamed of having a little dressing table, probably because of my obsession with all things British. You know, that area where I would sit and brush my hair one hundred times each night (if I’d ever stop cutting my hair) and have twenty tiny bottles of oils (if my kids wouldn’t break them). …
Do you have a room that just isn’t cooperating with you? You can’t quite figure out what you want to do with it, but you know it has great potential? That’s my living room. Our living room is the main gathering place in our house. I love that it has a big fireplace. The bay …
When I was a teenager, I had a thing for house design magazines (I was a weird teenager). I still do, but they’re much harder to find. I used to daydream about my perfect house. It would have an awesome kitchen, a sunroom, breakfast area, lots of bedrooms, a sitting area in the master… you …
When we closed on this house, I was pregnant but didn’t know it yet. We had all sorts of ideas for every room in the house except one. There was a bedroom upstairs that was smallish and, as crazy as it sounds, was just superfluous for our needs at the time. We thought about letting …
