I renovate lake house kitchens. It's the only thing I do, and I love it.

I'm Nora. I live in a small lake town where, it sometimes feels, everyone has a place on the water — and almost every one of those lake houses has a kitchen that's stuck in 1986. So last year I did something a little mad: I quit my job, started Quinn Lake Kitchens, and decided to renovate lake house kitchens, and only lake house kitchens, for a living.

It turns out a lake house kitchen is its own particular thing. It has to feed a crowd that just got off the boat, take wet swimsuits and sandy feet, sit empty all winter and come alive every summer, and look out at the best view in the house. Designing for all of that is a real craft, and it's one I've gotten a little obsessed with.

This blog is where I share the whole thing — the before-and-afters, what works and what warps in a lake house, the lighting that makes a kitchen glow at dusk, and what I've learned running a one-woman kitchen business in a town full of lake houses.