A personal diary-style newsletter from a couple renovating a house and running a large home garden, mixing practical building details, cooking, and reflections on everyday rituals like composting. It appeals to readers interested in slow home life, DIY renovation, and homegrown food.
Website: https://making-place.ghost.io/
A couple documents the renovation of their 1890s Folk Victorian home, with detailed accounts of kitchen design decisions and appliance sourcing. Readers get personal narrative, design reasoning and practical warnings drawn from hands-on experience.
A first-person newsletter following Amanda Hesser's renovation and furnishing of her home in Ojai, California, with design finds, organization projects and reader input. Readers get personal decision-making stories, product and design recommendations, and occasional reader discounts.
A memoir-style newsletter by an American family restoring a centuries-old château in rural France, sharing the practical costs, setbacks and seasonal life of the project. Issues mix personal reflection on cultural differences with household and renovation details.
A newsletter from two Brooklyn brownstone renovators and designers sharing restoration guides, design lessons from their projects, and product recommendations. Issues mix practical design analysis with updates on their Magnolia Network show and shopping lists.
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