WORKING HOUSE
VA

One of the tenets of our business is to lead with love. To us, this means allowing love to guide our decisions and practices rather than...

The Victorian belonged to our father, who purchased it as the “deal of the century” in the 1990s. It needed a lot of work, and he was...

It’s seven in the morning and today I am heading west out of our small mountain town. The thermometer reads 18 degrees as I wait for the...

Growing up with our parents, you might have thought that "help" was a four letter word. For different reasons both parents’ households...

For the first two years of our Working House journey, we have mainly focused on the past – our memories, the history – and a little on...

As I churn my way through projects at the Victorian, I find myself vacillating between sheer joy and flow, and moments of complete...

I operate in the realm of feelings. Unidentified pangs of nostalgia often radiate from deep in my core. Witnessing very simple things can...

I would imagine that the early American settlers who established their living on the farm we now call Sunshine Springs did so precisely...

Growing up, my sister and I spent weekends at the farm with Dad. Every Friday evening during that first summer of my parents’ divorce,...

As the story goes, I developed my attachment to place quite early. When I was a toddler, my parents bought an all-but-forgotten,...