Kathryn Loosli Pritchett has written about design topics for over twenty years. Now based in the San Francisco Bay Area, she grew up on an Idaho potato farm near Yellowstone Park. An early interest in books and design had her hanging art in her dorm room while analyzing Victorian literature. Today, she writes about design from her Piedmont Edwardian urban cabin in the Oakland Hills. Whether homesteading in the country or house renovating in the city, Kathryn celebrates things elemental to living well. She writes about these essential ingredients for a happy domestic life in her Bay Area News Group column Things Elemental. Welcome to the online version of Things Elemental.