Welcome.

I set out to write a book two years ago because I was frustrated with “small space” books and magazine articles. It seemed that half the time the small spaces were tiny houses that didn’t give me much help with my real-size, but small-ish home and the other half of the time the “small spaces” were people’s weekend homes or pied à terres. As a magazine editor, I also knew how much manipulation went into making those homes look picture perfect. I wanted to see what real people’s real homes looked like (albeit on their best day), and that was how I ended up writing and producing Living Small.

Now, there’s something else that I find disheartening: Portrayals of sustainable living. An eco-friendly life and home are treated by the media as either something that can only be achieved by millionaires who hire architects and engineers to build them a passive house or hippies who live off the grid on a rural homestead. Or worse, the only sustainable living content you’ll find is just a greenwashed shopping guide. I want to see what a low-impact life in 2022 looks like for the everyday family or individual. I want to know more about the little habit shifts that might add up to a big impact if we all embraced them. I want to explore how we got into this mess of consumption in the first place.

I’ve always been a bit of a treehugger, and I’ve spent my career writing about homes. I’d like to explore the intersection between the two here (and possibly another book) because a lot of the things I’d like to write about don’t fit neatly into the architecture of the sites and magazines I write for. You’ll find those musings here.