The Art of Home Blog

with Jenny Nanninga JUMP TO SHOW NOTES We're talking about family road trip adventures with former guest and road trip enthusiast, Jenny Nanninga. Jenny, her husband, and their 5 girls love to travel from their home in California on the highways and byways of America to see what adventures they can discover. They have a particular fondness for national parks and we will discuss that a good bit in our conversation. In This Episode: Jenny’s road trip background including a few

Eva Suchecki’s story is a beautiful reminder that homemaking isn’t just a list of chores—it’s an invisible kind of art. In this episode, Eva shares what life has looked like for their family across seasons of change (and a few surprises), plus the simple routines that help bring calm and comfort to home. In this conversation, you’ll hear: How Eva learned to let go of perfection—and why consistency matters more than “having it all together” What “go with the flow” homemaking l

JUMP TO SHOW NOTES Cleaning Furniture Hopefully, you have a regular system for cleaning your furniture that involves dusting and or polishing your wood furniture and vacuuming/spot cleaning your upholstered furniture. Think about your seasonal cleaning of these items as just a little bit extra. Maybe you typically only dust the top of the coffee table….great, now to be a little extra with this job, dust EVERYTHING…remove everything from the coffee table (on top, underneath, i

JUMP TO SHOW NOTES I am so excited to be bringing you our first deep dive into the world of quilting, with homemaker, quilter, and teacher, Jessica Clark of thelarklife.com and the Handmade Happiness Podcast. Jessica didn’t grow up with quilts but she did have fond memories of her grandmother’s quilt collection and decided to pursue learning to quilt herself. With hardly any sewing experience she wandered into a local quilt shop’s class and began her lifelong love affair wit

JUMP TO RESOURCES Today, we are continuing to spring clean our way through the home with the top-down approach. We’ve covered ceilings and overhead things and all of the hard vertical surfaces, including windows, doors and walls. This week, we will tackle the soft surfaces-primarily window coverings and linens. We will save upholstery for next week when we discuss furniture and rugs for the final week when we look at all things on the floor. I’ve said throughout this series,

JUMP TO RESOURCES Today, I am bringing you a conversation with a young woman who is practicing homemaking in South Africa, literally on the other side of the world from her native Indiana, USA. After meeting her now husband online in 2020 and developing a relationship long-distance for several years, Jayms left everything she knew in America to be nearer to David in his homeland. She tells about her experience living in a special home for single women for a couple of years an

JUMP TO RESOURCES VERTICAL SURFACES GET DIRTY, TOO Much like the ceiling, we don’t often consider our walls and doors as places where dust, dirt and grime lurk. We do, generally recognize that windows get dirty-there’s visible evidence. But until we actually clean the windows and see the difference it can make in the room’s lighting, we underestimate just how dirty our windows are. Walls and doors are a little harder to remember to clean, but are just as needful of a good wip

Jazmine Wyland has been making a home with her husband, Matthew, for two years, and recently, they've added a 17 year old foster son to their family. Jazmine shares her journey of the past 10 years beginning when she left home to live in her pastor’s basement apartment, learning so much about homemaking from the example of her pastor's wife, through becoming a newlywed with BIG expectations and idealized visions of home that were immediately challenged by the reality and un