Real stone hardscape, brick house, cedar siding, lots of windows. This one wins the whole week. 💯

1940s era cottage. It’s the curves.

Brick craftsman. The tapered columns and chimney make it feel solid, like it’s growing out of the ground.

Deep woods oak. Different flavor than street corner oak.

You need a mud room. Somewhere to come inside when weather is bad outside. We use ours for most people to enter due to the layout of our place and driveway. It doesn’t have to look like a magazine either. Put some care and thought into it and let life happen.

Small house, but it’s not the size. This one, with the stone and the real shutters. The details make it nice. I’ll take this over any particle board mansion.

This color pink.

This time of year I always start thinking about next year’s gardening.

Caught 18 this morning. My 7yr old son got a legit bogey on a par 3. Tee shot to the right of the cart path, second shot in the bunker, out of the sand and 12” from the hole on the third shot, drained the putt. Up and down from the bunker. I, however, did not play well today.

Timeless. Looked good on day one, will look good in a hundred years.

Cold air. Corduroy. Hot coffee.

Ostentatious in a good way.

Even if nobody in your home plays piano, you need to get one. They are cheap or free almost everywhere. Once it’s sitting there, you’ll play. You’ll sit and start figuring it out. You need to be filling your house with music.

A sense of time, that there’s a long history, gives the idea that there’s a future as well. Antiques connect us to the past. But you can’t only look back.

Can’t have too many books. Can’t have too much art and photos.

Brick has a way of saying, “this will last a long time and endure all types of weather” and you can feel that which is why it’s appealing

Herringbone wood floors. Always classy, never out of style.

Transitions.

Fireplace maximalism