I for sure wouldn't have planned it out that way, but it is working for us. Plus, empty rooms are luxurious! No need to rush it! We recently realized that we have a really strong red and green theme happening in our dining/schoolroom and love it. I feel that when each item you bring into your home is considered and you are excited about it, it’ll all work together okay-which is good enough! Overly staged homes can be boring.
I do believe, to some extent, in form following function, but also personally love color and pattern and have pretty wide-ranging tastes in terms of art and design.
The family's impressive bookshelf includes a stack of great plant-based cookbooks (left to right): Oh She Glows Every Day, Rose Elliot's New Complete Vegetarian, Vegetable Literacy, Miso, Tempeh, Natto & Other Tasty Ferments, Vegan Richas's Indian Kitchen, Plant Power Bowls, Let Them Eat Vegan!, Minimalist Baker's Everyday Cooking, The How Not To Die Cookbook, Keep It Seasonal: Soups, Salads, and Sandwiches, The Plantiful Table, The Help Yourself Cookbook for Kids, Veganomicon, The Vegan Instant Pot Cookbook, Gjelina: Cooking from Venice, California, and The New Vegetarian Cooking for Everyone.Īnd children's titles (left to right): Nancy Drew, Wayside School, Phoebe and Her Unicorn, Lucy, Bravery Magazine, and Wilderwood Imperium, amongst others. Not a glamorous one, but necessary." Abigail wears Beaton pants, a thrifted shirt, a James Street Co. This year, after patching the roof multiple times for a few very rainy winters, we are finally going to put a new one on. It’s a totally different house now and works really well for us. We meticulously designed everything ourselves, did a lot of the work, and contracted some out. The kitchen and bathrooms were the biggest overhauls for sure. It’s definitely been a bigger job than anticipated and we aren’t finished yet. We naively thought we’d be able to make some significant changes within the first three months of living here. "Yes! We have changed every single surface inside this house and have completely replaced the plumbing and a lot of old scary wiring. Functionally very minimalist, but aesthetically less so." "Warm, efficient in a really simple way, and balanced. Jefferson warned me that the owners had a sign that read 'conservative parking only,' and I remember putting on an oxford cloth button-down-and buttoning all the buttons-and a long skirt, and putting bows in my kids' hair before approaching them! Ha!" and left a note, and then I went by an hour later with a bunch of toddlers in tow. Jefferson, my husband, showed up at 7 a.m. We had been looking and had experienced some disappointment, so when this house popped up-100 years old and in a totally walkable, central neighborhood-we almost didn’t care about any other details.
ARQ CLOTHES FULL
Click through the slideshow below to get to know Abigail and her brood, and get a full tour of their Pacific Northwest nest.
And their gorgeous, handcrafted home is an apt expression of the slow, sustainable values that are at the heart of both ARQ and the family ethos. This family-first clan is a study in how business and parenting (even during a pandemic) can truly be a winning combo. This down-to-earth PDX mama is rolling with this new reality in the most inspiring ways: She and her husband Jefferson (who also works for ARQ) split the daily childcare duties down the middle, and both seem to relish the opportunity to spend more time with their 3 kids and be more involved in their eduction. That’s why we are so grateful that the very last photo shoot we squeezed in before the pandemic hit was of ARQ founder Abigail Quist. We’ve been enamored with ARQ‘s beautiful organic cotton base-layers for awhile now (the brand was founded in 2016), but if any moment was tailor made for all-day lounging in ultra-soft high waisted undies and tanks, we think that moment is now.
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