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10/22/2026

Years before we found our house, I wrote it down.

Not exactly what it would look like, but how I imagined it might feel.

And then, at a moment when I wasn’t looking for a house at all, we found this nearly century-old beauty. Somehow, it felt strangely familiar.

What followed became the most personal project I’ve ever undertaken. An opportunity to honor its history, while creating a home for our own family and all the memories still to come.

After keeping this one close for so long, I’m so happy to finally begin sharing The Gray House. 🤍

There are so many stories tucked into these rooms, and I’m looking forward to telling them.

The first chapter, The House I Wrote Down, is now on Notes on Home. It’s a very personal story about finding this house, the memories we carry forward, and what this home has taught me about the things that really matter.

I’d love for you to read it. You can find the link in bio.

Xx Sara

Design | Grayhaus Interiors
Build | TAYLORSMITH
Photo | Pablo Enriquez
Styling | Karie Higgins Studio

10/19/2026

I’ve been thinking a lot lately about what makes a home enduring.

And the more I reflect on it, the more I believe it has very little to do with a particular aesthetic, architectural style, or even the idea of timeless design.

I think it comes down to authenticity. The homes that mean the most to us are the ones that feel like a true reflection of the people who live there. Their histories, their values, the things they’ve collected, the rituals of everyday life. All the little things that make a life uniquely their own.

And I don’t believe an enduring home needs to remain unchanged. Just as we grow and evolve, our homes should have the freedom to grow and evolve with us.

This is really at the heart of what I hope to create through Grayhaus. Not a particular look or style, but spaces that feel deeply personal. Homes that honor where we’ve been, make room for who we are today, and leave space for who we’re becoming.

Homes that give form to feeling. Homes that mean something.

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

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