— Selected Editorial Work
A Decade Of
Quiet Editorial Work
A curated selection of the essays, frameworks, and series that have come to define Home Wall Trends. Each piece below represents weeks of research, careful writing, and the quiet conviction that the walls of an American home deserve a journal of their own.
— By The Numbers
Twelve Years, Carefully Counted
240
Editorial Guides Published
10
Room Frameworks Built
300
Sunday Letters Sent
50
States Reading Weekly
— Featured Essay 01
The Living Room Framework
Room Framework Series
Composing The American Living Room, Wall By Wall
A four-part framework that walks readers through the focal wall, the mantel composition, the gallery wall, and the negative space that holds them all together. Built from a decade of editing real American homes and our most-requested guide to date.
Published 2018, updated 2024. Read by more than four hundred thousand readers across all fifty states.
— Featured Essay 02
The Quiet Art Of Wallpaper
Material Guide Series
A Considered Guide To Wallpaper, From Pattern To Paste
A long-form essay on choosing, hanging, and living with wallpaper in modern American homes. Covers pattern scale, repeat alignment, paste versus peel-and-stick, and the rooms where wallpaper still earns its quiet place.
Published 2021, updated 2025. Fact-checked against eight manufacturer documentation sets.
— Featured Essay 03
Twenty Trends, Worth Keeping
Annual Trend Report
The Trends Worth Keeping, And The Ones Quietly Fading
Our annual trend report, written each January for readers across the United States. Twenty considered ideas in interior wall decor, separated cleanly into the rising, the steady, and the quietly fading. No clickbait, no listicle, no fad chasing.
Published every January since 2017. The 2025 edition is our most-shared piece of the year.
— Signature Series
Six Series, Built To Last
42 Essays
The Room Frameworks
Step-by-step methodologies for every room in the home, from the living room to the home office. Built and tested over a decade in real American interiors.
38 Essays
Material Guides
Long-form guides on paint, wallpaper, plaster, paneling, and stone. Each one written by a named editor and reviewed by an independent specialist before publication.
9 Reports
Annual Trend Reports
Our flagship January piece, published every year since 2017. A considered look at what is rising, what is steady, and what is quietly worth letting go.
300 Letters
The Sunday Letter
A short, considered editorial letter delivered every Sunday morning since 2020. Read by subscribers in every state in the country.
60 Reviews
Honest Reviews
Unsponsored, hands-on reviews of paints, wallpapers, framing, and wall hardware. Every product is tested in a real American home before it appears.
48 Columns
Reader Q And A
A monthly column where our editors answer real questions sent in by readers, from awkward stairwell walls to tricky corner alcoves.
— Recognition
Where Our Work Has Appeared
2024
Our annual trend report was cited in Architectural Digest as one of the most considered American interior reads of the year.
2023
Editor-in-Chief Anya Castellan was a guest lecturer on contemporary editorial writing at Parsons School of Design in New York.
2022
Our wallpaper guide was referenced in House Beautiful as a starting resource for first-time American homeowners.
2021
The Sunday Letter crossed two hundred thousand readers, distributed weekly to subscribers across all fifty states.
— A Closing Note
Every Wall Has A Story
The work above represents a decade of quiet, careful editorial writing. Our archive is open to every reader, free of paywalls and free of pressure. Begin with whichever piece speaks to your home, and stay as long as you like.
Step Into The Archive
More than two hundred and forty essays, frameworks, and reports — all freely readable, all carefully made. Begin wherever you like.