Letters from BE.

Which is why this — a letter, once a week, for as long as there are rooms left to design — feels more honest in honoring the present moment.

Letters from BE. is the long-form extension of the social media account you may have wandered over here from. Instagram is declarative — fifteen seconds, one opinion, one signature line. It’s a great format for certain things. But there are thoughts, feelings, ideations and inspiration I’m drawn to share that don’t fit inside a carousel, and those are the reflections and insights that deserve space to breathe.

So here’s what this is, and here’s what it isn’t.

WHAT THIS ISN’T:
It isn’t a newsletter. Newsletters summarize. They aggregate load of links, they recap the week, they pile up in your inbox with three hundred others. This won’t do that. You can get the news of interior design elsewhere — from AD, House Beautiful, Vogue Living, Business of Home, from the trades. You don’t need another summary from me.

It isn’t a recap of my Instagram. If you already follow me there, this letter needs to earn its own place in your week. Copying a caption over and calling it a blog post is such a disservice to your time. Every letter will contain something that you won’t find elsewhere.

It isn’t a promotion for my Interior Design Studio or for HOME by BE. Both businesses will show up in the letter naturally — projects get written about, objects get mentioned — but they aren’t the subject. The subject is the thinking; the deeper conversation surrounding how we live, feel, and experience home.

WHAT THIS IS:
A weekly editorial practice: one letter, every Monday.
Four columns rotating every month:

WEEK 01: CONSIDERED DESIGN — A long-form essay on one design principle, one material, one decision. Material honesty. The hour between five and six. Why I don’t specify polished stone in homes where children live. One thing, thoroughly.

WEEK 02: THE STUDIO — A letter from inside a current project. What I’m wrestling with. What got approved. What got sent back to revision. The week a door was three-quarters of an inch off and what that cost us. Not a case study — a working document.

If that sounds like something you’d read on a Monday morning, stay.
If it doesn’t, no harm done.

For those staying: The first proper letter drops next Monday. It’s a Considered Design essay on material honesty — what I mean by the phrase, why I use it constantly, and why I think the next decade of residential design will be defined by it.

Then a STUDIO letter the week after. We’re in the final stretch of a deeply meaningful Altadena residential rebuild for an incredibly wonderful family impacted by the fires — a brand new home that will finally welcome them back in just a few short months. This letter where I’ll share the parts of the process that can’t be distilled into a carousel. YAP: a personal letter, the third week, about a rule I gave myself many years ago that translates into one of the best policies for work + home balance. FIELD NOTES piece the week after that — seasonal rituals, since we’ll be in June (my month, btw!)

That’s the rhythm. Week by week, the same four columns, rotating. If something urgent happens — a press feature, a project reveal, a thought that can’t wait — there may be bonus letters. But the baseline is one, every Monday. Thank you for being here. For slowing down long enough to read — not just scroll — which, to me, is a far more meaningful form of connection — and we have so much to discuss.