Slow Home Notes is a quiet corner for making home feel good, one small change at a time.
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Slow Home Notes is a quiet corner of the internet about making home feel warm and easy to live in, without a big budget or a renovation.
Here you'll find cozy room ideas, seasonal rhythms, simple Southern recipes, and the honest notes behind keeping an old house comfortable through long, humid summers.
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Whether you're settling into a first house or trying to make a long-time home feel like yours again, you've found a calm, unhurried corner of the internet for it.
I spent eight years shelving books at a public library before trading it for a slower life at home with my husband Ben, our daughter Lila and an old beagle named Pepper. Here I share the small, affordable changes that made our house warmer, quieter and easier to run.
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Fall on a Southern Porch When It's Still 85 Degrees
October in Orangeburg still means sweat by noon. How we coax a little autumn onto the screened porch without fighting the heat or the budget.
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