I wasn’t surprised in the least when I found out that Darcy and Josh White’s Victorian farmhouse in Portland, OR was our #9 home tour of all time. It featured Mid-Century-style decorations both old and new and housed one of the most memorable spaces in our 15-year history: a dreamy bathroom decked out in Mexican tiles […]

I wasn’t surprised in the least when I found out that Darcy and Josh White’s Victorian farmhouse in Portland, OR was our #9 home tour of all time. It featured Mid-Century-style decorations both old and new and housed one of the most memorable spaces in our 15-year history: a dreamy bathroom decked out in Mexican tiles that the couple came across on eBay. Overall, it was a stunner.
Since we last caught up with Darcy, Pastor Josh and their children Hattie and Henry, the family of four has left their neighborhood and old Victorian farmhouse for another Victorian farmhouse in southeast Portland. With the change came a great school district and a better quality of life: “Each of [the kids’] schools are less than half a mile out of our front door. And even Josh’s work, our church building, is only one and a half miles from our front door. It is truly ideal for the state of life we are in.” Darcy says. In order to afford a place in the neighborhood, the foursome had to downsize. Luckily, solving design challenges — like fitting their family into 1,600 square feet — comes naturally to Darcy and Jo...