hi, i'm ash!
Travel writer & host, cultural explorer, and architecture & interiors freak.
Every week, we're exploring global culture through the lens of the home. From floorplans to fixtures, we examine how houses are built, designed, and decorated around the world (with a side of sass, of course!)
The only podcast where we pass on the pyramids and poke around in the plumbing. I’m Ash, and I'm, exploring the strange, smart, and wonderful ways houses are built, designed, and decorated around the world.
A new series of OTHER PEOPLE'S HOUSES books designed to help you try on a new life in different places around the world—by getting to "go behind closed doors" inside local homes to discover what it's really like to live there.
I laughed out loud at this sentence: “If this week has taught me anything, it’s that everything looks perfectly fine right up until the moment you notice the crack.” Now I can hear Frank Sinatra singing (in my head):
“That’s life (that’s life), that’s what all the people say
You’re ridin’ high in April, shot down in May
But I know I’m gonna change that tune
When I’m back on top, back on top in June.”
Wonderful song, BTW.
And wonderful piece! And of course, we want to see the new doors!
I mean, not going over to greet a “neighbor” you didn’t know lived two miles away and hadn’t laid eyes on since puberty and were never friends with? Ash. Hole. (Is it just me, or does this interaction scream “You became very successful and somewhat well-known and have had some amazing experiences traveling the world and I’m mad you didn’t give me any credit for being from the same geographic region”!?)
Yup. *nods slowly*
Great title! 😂
Ah, water molecules. Those clingy, insidious little things are a big reason we traded our old rowhome in Philly for a tight little drum in Durham.
p.s. Stacy doesn’t think you’re an asshole (anymore) 😉