character home

Character Home begins at the scale of domestic life. It looks closely at kitchens, porches, spare rooms, back additions, and other ordinary spaces where care, neglect, repair, and use leave visible marks. Houses are treated as historical evidence: they absorb labor, register routine, and show how people live with inherited space across the American West. The work uses writing, photography, and guided observation to connect lived experience with material change, maintenance, and stewardship. It supports both designated landmarks and everyday houses, from polished interiors to stubborn windows and layered paint. 

The aim is simple: help people see clearly before they decide what to keep, repair, alter, or value. Areas of attention include domestic architecture, repair and inheritance as cultural practice, stories shaped by labor, gender, exclusion, and care, archival and field based storytelling, public education through essays and tours, and practical translation between lived experience and preservation systems.