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10/15/2026

The goal was never to make this room feel new, but to make it feel as though it had always belonged.

For the primary bath at Tryon Hill, we took our cues from the home’s nearly century-old architecture, layering traditional millwork, a checkerboard stone floor, and soft, sculptural forms. A restrained palette allows the quieter details to come forward, creating a space that feels both familiar and entirely its own.

A little old-world romance, a little modern restraint. And a space that invites you to slow down.

Design | Grayhaus Interiors
Build | TAYLORSMITH
Photo | Pablo Enriquez
Styling | Kira Corbin

10/08/2026

Some homes ask us to look a little more closely.

Tryon Hill was built in 1929, and from the beginning, I felt a responsibility to honor what was already there. Not to preserve it untouched, but to understand what deserved to remain as we made room for the people living there now.

One of the most meaningful parts of this work is discovering how our relationship with a home can deepen through the process. How learning its history, understanding its architecture, and paying closer attention can change what we see and value.

I don’t believe an enduring home is one that stays unchanged. It’s one that continues to hold a life, beautifully and authentically, as that life evolves.

Design | Grayhaus Interiors
Build | TAYLORSMITH
Photo | Pablo Enriquez
Styling | Kira Corbin

10/01/2026

Antwerp, you were very hard to leave. 🤎

One of my favorite things about travel is the way a new place can expand your point of view. But what surprised me most about Antwerp was that it did something slightly different for me. It reflected something back to me that I already knew.

So much of what I’m naturally drawn to in design and in life felt woven into the culture there: old-world architecture alongside really restrained contemporary design, beautiful natural materials, patina, craftsmanship, history, and a willingness to let things simply be what they are rather than constantly making them newer or more perfect.

But I think what I loved most went beyond design. The tiny cobblestone alleyways. Bikes casually leaning against old buildings. Hidden courtyards. Cafés spilling out into the squares. Sitting over coffee or lunch without anyone seeming particularly interested in hurrying anywhere.

Antwerp somehow still feels intimate and human in scale, almost like a village tucked inside a city. We were there for only a few days, but very quickly found ourselves retracing the same streets, recognizing places we had been before, settling into little rituals. It felt less like trying to “see” a city and more like getting to inhabit it for a moment.

I came home feeling more certain about why I’m drawn to the things I’m drawn to in the first place: restraint over excess, permanence over novelty, patina over perfection, old and new existing comfortably together, and beauty being part of everyday life rather than something reserved for special occasions.

Travel can inspire you by showing you something completely new. But sometimes it does something just as meaningful, it gives you recognition. A feeling of, oh, yes, this is what I believe too.

There’s something incredibly affirming about encountering a place that feels unfamiliar and, at the same time, strangely like home.

A little part of me definitely belongs in Belgium. 😉

09/18/2026

This might be an unpopular opinion to some, but I don’t believe everything in our homes needs to be low or no maintenance.

I understand the appeal and why this is often a request from clients. We all want things that are long-lasting and don’t ask as much of us as the rest of our life does. But I also believe our homes are places we’re in relationship with, and in a lot of ways that’s not so different from the relationships we have with people and the other aspects of our lives that we care deeply about.

Anything we want to last requires some amount of nurturing and care — our friendships, relationships, marriages, careers. It’s inevitable that we will grow and change as humans, and hopefully, with a healthy amount of care, the parts of our lives we cherish grow and change with us.

And I don’t think our homes should be any different. They are not meant to just hover in this perfect, frozen state while everything else changes around them.

It’s one of the reasons I’m so drawn to natural materials, and to the restraint needed to leave space for that inevitable change. It’s why I embrace the etches in marble, the patina of brass, the water glass rings on a wood dining table. They’re little records of where life has happened. Evidence of a home being lived in.

Yes, sometimes these materials ask a little more of us. But with a little care, they age gracefully too. And often into something even more beautiful than when we first installed them.

I have a lot more thoughts on this than will fit in an Instagram caption, and I have a feeling I’ll probably go a little deeper into it in my next Substack essay.

09/15/2026

I think one of the most generous things a home can give us is a reason to notice.

The view outside a window. A quiet cup of coffee in your favorite chair. The way the late afternoon light lands on a wall you’ve walked past a hundred times.

These are such ordinary moments, but I think they’re often the ones that make a home feel most alive.

I think about this a lot when I’m designing. Not only how a room functions or how we move through it, but whether there are places that invite us to pause, to slow down for a minute and to look around and take in the beauty of an ordinary day.

09/14/2026

There’s something sacred about a bedroom.

It’s one of the most private rooms in a home and the kind of space you’re really only invited into if your name is on the door.

Maybe that’s why I’ve always felt a bedroom should offer more than a beautiful place to sleep.

Whenever there’s room, I love creating a comfortable little place to sit. A chair by a window. Somewhere to read, have coffee, think, or simply close the door for a little while.

The rest of a home is often about gathering and being together. A bedroom gets to be different.

It can be a retreat. A place where no one needs anything from you for a minute. Somewhere you can be completely, quietly your own.

Design | Grayhaus Interiors
Build | TAYLORSMITH
Photo | Pablo Enriquez
Styling | Kira Corbin

09/12/2026

Small spaces are some of my favorite places to create a little surprise.

This powder room sits directly opposite the front door, so you catch a glimpse of it the moment you enter.

I wanted that view to create a sense of intrigue. Something that pulls you in and makes you want to look a little closer.

I love when a house reveals itself slowly. A view revealed in passing. A detail you didn’t notice the first time through. A small room that feels like a discovery.

Design | Grayhaus Interiors
Build | TAYLORSMITH
Photo | Pablo Enriquez
Styling | Kira Corbin

09/11/2026

A kitchen has to do a lot more than look beautiful.

It’s where someone makes coffee before the rest of the house is awake. Where people stand around talking even though there are perfectly good chairs ten feet away. Where homework gets spread across the counter and dinner inevitably takes longer than expected.

Of course I care about the proportions of the cabinetry, the edge profile on the stone, where the light falls at different times of day. I care about all of those things probably more than is reasonable.

But they’re not really the point. The point is that, eventually, you stop noticing them because the room works. It feels good to be in. It holds the ordinary rhythms of your life without asking much of you in return.

I never want a home to feel like you have to behave a certain way because it’s been designed. I want the design to quietly make life easier, more beautiful, and more like your own.

Design | Grayhaus Interiors
Build | TAYLORSMITH
Photo | Pablo Enriquez
Styling | Kira Corbin

09/02/2026

You guys, I started a Substack a little while ago and then did a very me thing: I wrote the first essay, published it, and told almost no one about it... except bri_ussery, of course.

I think part of that was because sharing something a little more personal felt vulnerable. And part of it was the story I immediately attached to sharing it—that suddenly I needed to know what this was going to become. How often I would write. What I would write about. Whether I was now a person who had a Substack. 😉 I’m really trying not to do that.

I’ve always had a pretty deep interior life and a well of curiosity about people, relationships, creativity, growth, why we are the way we are, and what makes a life feel meaningful and true. I’m also someone who will happily skip the small talk and find myself three layers deep into a conversation with someone I met twenty minutes ago (hi! Kristie Carter).

A lot of those thoughts have mostly lived in my own head, in conversations with my sacred crew, or as part of my own personal journey. And lately I’ve felt a real pull to give some of them somewhere else to go.

That’s what drew me to Substack. A place to follow what’s on my heart and mind a little further. To get curious. To write about the things I’m working through, noticing, questioning or learning without needing all of it to fit neatly within the context of my work or into an Instagram caption.

I know home and design will find their way in because they’re such a big part of how I see the world. But so will creativity, relationships, motherhood, entrepreneurship, spirituality and whatever else I find myself wanting to understand more deeply.

I don’t really know exactly what it will become, and I’m trying to let that be the point. So I’m sharing it now, imperfectly and a little late.

There are two essays waiting there, including a new one about something I’ve been thinking about a lot lately: the difference between a life that looks beautiful and one that actually feels beautiful to live.

Come find me there if you feel inclined. xx

08/20/2026

Some of the words a client used to describe working with us, lately. We didn’t write any of these. We just tried to listen closely enough to earn them.

Photo | Pablo Enriquez

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