Word from the West

One of the differences between Dan and me is that where I have dreams, he has plans. My life kicked into a higher gear when I met a man who knew how to take big ideas and make them real. That goes for big things, such as all the travel that we manage to do, […]

Dan has recently acquired a drone capable of aerial photography. Many nights it’s simply too windy to take the drone out — no one ever warns you how windy Colorado is, all the time! — but every now and then we catch a break. Below are a few of the shots of our neighborhood that […]

Dan and I have kept a map of the United States for nearly 9 years now. The map is more than decorative; many of our best trips have begun as brainstorms in front of this map. The map has been pinned to our wall in three different homes. When we left Ohio it had 120+ […]

You know what they say: new year, new bookshelves. I have been losing my mind. We have been diligent about unpacking, but all of my books have remained in boxes for three months now. Dan and I knew we wanted to install permanent, wall-mounted bookshelves, so there was no sense in unpacking them all twice. […]

Dan and I both aim to have less stuff. Our tandem de-cluttering has been an ongoing process over the course of our relationship and especially over the past 2 years, as we prepared for our cross-country relocation. Christmas was one of the first places that we started. The idea of having a basement full of […]

A few weeks ago I posted that the living room was coming together but without artwork it felt bare. We have hung two of my favorite pieces over the couch — purchased from a series Rapha put together to commemorate the Tour de France centennial, I had these framed for Dan’s birthday a few years […]

Welcome to a space that doesn’t photograph very well: the living room! The living room is an extension of the open concept kitchen. This is one of the rooms that sorely needs artwork on the walls to look presentable, but in the name of GSD, here’s a peek at least. Through the window is a […]

Voilà, our kitchen! I had just finished hand-washing our lunch dishes — currently, the dishwasher is strictly decorative, as somehow it was installed without being hooked up to either power or water — and decided the kitchen looked as photo-ready as it was going to get. Without a doubt, the kitchen is the most stunning […]