<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?><rss xmlns:dc="http://purl.org/dc/elements/1.1/" xmlns:content="http://purl.org/rss/1.0/modules/content/" xmlns:atom="http://www.w3.org/2005/Atom" version="2.0"><channel><title><![CDATA[House & Story]]></title><description><![CDATA[House & Story]]></description><link>https://www.houseandstory.com/thestories</link><generator>RSS for Node</generator><lastBuildDate>Wed, 21 Oct 2026 23:17:26 GMT</lastBuildDate><atom:link href="https://www.houseandstory.com/blog-feed.xml" rel="self" type="application/rss+xml"/><item><title><![CDATA[The House on Lounsbury]]></title><description><![CDATA[I’ve always been drawn to older homes with angled ceilings, awkward spaces and subtle quirks that make a house feel as though it has a story. 

Ten months into our search, I visited a friend who had just finished her new build.]]></description><link>https://www.houseandstory.com/post/the-house-on-lounsbury</link><guid isPermaLink="false">e94f4454-affc-43e5-9d06-ebc7f0ac3d1a</guid><pubDate>Wed, 21 Oct 2026 19:04:15 GMT</pubDate><enclosure url="https://static.wixstatic.com/media/77b4b5_2cc9bcfceea54e4dab63ec05af1f750d~mv2.png/v1/fit/w_1000,h_1000,al_c,q_80/file.png" length="0" type="image/png"/><dc:creator>Jaclyn Gunthorpe</dc:creator></item><item><title><![CDATA[A Fireplace That Belongs]]></title><description><![CDATA[The house on Lounsbury sits on forty acres. Twenty of them are wooded. Trees are continually falling, leaving more wood than you could ever burn through. So a gas fireplace never felt like an option.



A wood-burning fireplace was the obvious decision. The stone that surrounded it took more thought.]]></description><link>https://www.houseandstory.com/post/the-house-on-lounsbury-a-fireplace-that-belongs</link><guid isPermaLink="false">61954e1b-e241-4186-8fd4-f825e361676e</guid><pubDate>Wed, 21 Oct 2026 16:51:18 GMT</pubDate><enclosure url="https://static.wixstatic.com/media/77b4b5_cd72daa65ec04e3e8511908f2741fbec~mv2.png/v1/fit/w_1000,h_1000,al_c,q_80/file.png" length="0" type="image/png"/><dc:creator>Jaclyn Gunthorpe</dc:creator></item><item><title><![CDATA[The Warmth of Wood]]></title><description><![CDATA[I wanted the house to feel settled. Not old, necessarily, but as though it had already been lived in. As though it had already belonged to someone.]]></description><link>https://www.houseandstory.com/post/the-warmth-of-wood</link><guid isPermaLink="false">bda75f03-9bfb-41cc-a4c7-b9a5d9efe791</guid><pubDate>Wed, 21 Oct 2026 17:24:09 GMT</pubDate><enclosure url="https://static.wixstatic.com/media/77b4b5_0dce44715ad245c4ad45382c1f2b3772~mv2.png/v1/fit/w_1000,h_1000,al_c,q_80/file.png" length="0" type="image/png"/><dc:creator>Jaclyn Gunthorpe</dc:creator></item></channel></rss>