Starting Sunday began as a personal project before it became a professional one. In 2024, my family and I moved to coastal Maine and began restoring an 180-year-old church that had been converted into a house decades earlier. What started as a renovation quickly became a deeper exploration of how a home can be shaped slowly and intentionally over time.
I come to design from a background in brand storytelling and strategy design, where I worked on narrative, systems thinking, and long-form reporting projects for technology companies including Upwork, Alteryx, and Payoneer. My work focused on translating complex ideas into clear structures and enduring stories—an approach that naturally carried over into the way I approached our home, less as a collection of individual rooms and more as a process of building coherence across architecture, interiors, and the land surrounding it.
The project gradually became the foundation for Starting Sunday, while the surrounding property—now known as Sunday Farm—emerged as an ongoing experiment in permaculture design at a manageable residential scale. Together, the house and landscape function as a working case study in how homes can evolve through careful material decisions, thoughtful planning, and long-term stewardship.
The name reflects the pace I’m interested in—optimistic but restrained, deliberate rather than urgent. For me, Starting Sunday suggests beginning with clarity and a long view, allowing good decisions to accumulate over time.
