Weekly Roundup

Mary Sauer paintings of interiors get me every time. This one of a bathroom makes me want to either buy the painting or remodel my bathroom to look just like it, or both.

Speaking of old bathroom design, I’m always intrigued by how our homes change based on what’s happening at the time. I talked about how design will change in a COVID-19 world on the blog yesterday, but I also linked to a podcast and article that’s worth a read. Did you listen to or read How Infectious Disease Shaped American Bathroom Design? I highly recommend it!

Friends made us this stone fruit salad (we still are without a functioning kitchen) and it was sooo good!

Have you thought about how all clothing is handmade? Not just the knitted sweater from your friend, but even the mass-produced tee.

Have you taken the Harvard Implicit Association Test? It reveals an automatic preference for a particular category like race, age, religion, gender, and more.

I sometimes feel like I have one foot in the old house community and one foot in the home design blogger community. I identify with both, of course. But sometimes I feel like I’m not fully in either when I try to avoid the tropes of big influencers and when I miss out on big news in the old house Instagram community. I’m working to diversify my following by including more folks restoring historic homes. Join me? Share some of your favorite old house accounts and I’ll do a big roundup of them on Instagram this weekend.

Speaking of old house restoration, have you seen the tile floor Annika exposed??

Extreme heat is worse in redlined neighborhoods - learn more in video or text form.

Instagram rolled out some new fonts recently, and Angela shared the importance of typography and accessibility in relation to these changes.

Holy cow this bathroom!