No one wants to build a dream house like this

Here at Design*Sponge, we’ve included a wide spectrum of subjects, from DIY how-to’s, to artist profiles and studios, to recipes, to pop culture subjects and essays that run the gamut in concern count. But through the years, our principal focus has always been home tours. They’re our bread and butter. They’re our window to the world, and after publishing, analyzing and modifying thousands of them, we nonetheless can’t get enough of them.

Year after yr, readers entrust us with showcasing their houses — an intimate observe their existence — and it’s something we don’t take lightly. We honor this believe by way of handling the home tours of others the manner we’d want a person to inform the stories of our personal houses, and we paintings to get the details just proper — “What non-public pronouns would you decide upon we use?” and “Are you relaxed consisting of the names of your youngsters?” and “Are there approaches we ought to higher and extra respectfully describe these cultural circle of relatives heirlooms?” — because those info all work together to inform the tale of you. After all is said and performed, the more conversation isn’t approximately layout, it’s about lifestyles at domestic.

Our first actual home tour published in 2007 — a small, one-photo peek in the Portland domestic of artist Amy Ruppel — and it was written through Grace. She tells me, “I didn’t have any concept that people could want to look greater content material like this (at the time I specially wrote about new product designs) and so I called it a ‘sneak peek’ because it felt like we in brief stepped interior Amy’s entryway, snapped a photo, after which ran out!”