Be Our Guest

Be Our Guest

There’s a quiet magic at a dinner table where no one feels the need to perform. Where the candles flicker gently—not as a stage set for a perfect evening, but as a soft, steady glow that says, stay awhile. Where the wine is poured freely, the napkins are simple but soft, and no one is watching to see if you use the right fork.

Written by Kathryn Horner | Photography by PEJ Studio

The perfect dinner makes one feel thought of, considered, and known - much like this traditional high country farmhouse. The nostalgic bones and familiar layers of spaces through a pantry hall and scullery makes us want to pull up a chair and stay a while.

The food laid out in a room of windows that may as well have been a porch in another life strips away the need to present ourselves as polished and put-together - we make space for something far richer: connection. We turn our focus from performing hospitality to actually practicing it.

The best kind of gathering leaves people feeling refreshed, relaxed, and rested. It reminds them they belong, not because of what they bring to the table, but simply because they’re at it.

So use the chipped plates. Serve the store-bought bread. Light the crooked candle. Because the best nights aren’t the ones that go perfectly. They’re the ones where we laugh until we cry, where the conversation lingers, where we feel, if only for an evening, completely at home.

Nooks and Crannies

We designed the storage in this home with a variety of depth and function to create character alongside practicality. Built-in hutches, deep drawers, tucked-away cabinets, and open shelving do more than hold dishes and dry goods; they create rhythm, movement, and intrigue in a space. A pantry hall revealing heirloom dishes and concealing dry goods. A sideboard housing linens and silver, doubling as a drinks station when company arrives. Traditional homes thrive on this sense of flow—where storage isn’t an afterthought but an invitation to slow down, to arrange and rearrange, to live beautifully in the in-between moments. Because a home should work as hard as it inspires, and the best ones do both seamlessly.