Hardware & Handles
Cold Metal, Early Light
The bathroom vanity pulls are the first hardware I touch every morning, before the coffee, before I am really awake enough to notice much of anything, and for...
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Author · Noelle Kirkbride
I set out to renovate a small 1930s house and got as far as the hallway, because I kept picking things up and turning them over. Little Home Details is the record of that: hardware, ceramics, baskets, found objects, held for longer than they probably deserve.
The Spine That Cracked in the Right Place
A paperback with a spine cracked exactly at the page that matters most, and a slow change of mind about what a…
The Box of Tins Nobody Wanted at the Estate Sale
Estate sales in the last hour are a specific kind of sad, tables half cleared, prices scrawled over in marker to something…
Learning to Notice a Room Before I Try to Scent It
For a long time my approach to scent in the house was the same in every room, light whatever candle was closest,…
The Sound Of Dishes Stacking Wrong
There is a particular sound a stack of plates makes when the top one does not sit quite flush, a faint rock…
Wood, Metal, and the Decades They Keep
I bought two frames on the same afternoon, from the same shop, within about ten minutes of each other, one of solid…
A Scrub Brush That Outlasted Three Kitchens
The wooden handle of my dish brush has moved through three kitchens and two head replacements, and somehow it still feels like…
The Crock That Used to Hold Something Else
A four dollar stoneware crock from an estate sale, chipped at the rim and probably once used for butter, now holds our…
A House of Mismatched Knobs
If you walked through this house with a checklist of finishes, you would find satin nickel in the kitchen, oil-rubbed bronze on…
The Peeler with the Handle Shaped Like My Grip
Years of peeling potatoes and carrots have worn a faint indentation into the wooden handle of my peeler, exactly where my thumb…