About

Mel Jones spent perhaps too much of her childhood drawing houses and floor plans, outfitting each room with furnishings and accessories from her mother’s catalogs and magazines. However, her inability to do math suppressed any urge to study architecture.

After college, Mel eventually found her way to an interior design and lifestyle magazine, where she worked as managing editor for six years. During that time she discovered a serious passion for architecture, interior design, landscaping and even antiques.

An on-again, off-again, hopefully soon-to-be on-again, student of kitchen and bath design, Mel uses her own home as a lab of sorts, slowly transforming it from “old lady” back to its happy, mid-century roots, as sustainably as possible. And while she currently works in the nonprofit world, Mel’s design obsession has only gotten stronger, as has her love for writing about it. She started home girl earlier this year as a place to document her own home and garden plans and projects, feature her favorite things and talk a little fashion and beauty. When she’s not working, writing or sleeping, Mel also does a little freelance on the side.