Hi, I’m Karen.
Not long ago I left a ten-year career in healthcare and stepped into real estate, helping people find home: the right light, the right street, the room where their life finally fits. It didn’t take long before I was asking the same questions for myself. Not just where I want to live, but how — and whether a life has to be tied to one place at all.
Between Pines & Tides is the answer I’m still working out.
I’ve always been pulled toward two worlds. Mountain mornings, the kind that smell like pine and woodsmoke and cold air. coastal evenings, slow and golden, salt on everything. For a long time it felt like I had to choose. turns out the life I want is the one that refuses to — so I’m building it on purpose, one intentional choice at a time, in a way that can travel with me.
This space is for the woman in the middle of her own redesign — quietly reinventing, rethinking where she lives and how, dreaming about a second place by the water or up in the trees, making her home more considered as she goes. If that’s you, hi. You’re in the right place.
Here’s What You’ll Find:
The Pivot — career reinvention, second acts, and the honest work of redesigning your life in your 30s and 40s
The Space — interior design, creating a home you love, and organizing systems that actually stick — at home and at the second place you’re dreaming up
The Life — intentional living: slow mornings, seasonal rituals, recipes worth making, and the travel that fills the space between your mountains and your coast
The Edit — the style and the finds worth keeping — what to wear, what to bring, for the life you’re living and the one you’re dreaming about
I don’t have it all figured out — that’s the whole point. I’m early in this, sharing it as I go. no noise, no perfection. just a slower, more beautiful way of making a life — mountain mornings, coastal evenings, and everything in between.
Come along.