Author, Designer: Life Musings
From There to Here
Welcome. I am Maida Korte and I write about life, family, interior design, and the lessons they bring.
My debut memoir, From There to Here: How An Old House Remodeled Me releases Fall of 2025. This is a memoir about designing (or redesigning) your life. My second book releases Spring of 2026 and is titled, Basically, It’s Going to be a Nightmare: Lessons in Remodeling.
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Maida Says…The latest from the blog
Get Out of the Car
– And Other Motivations By Maida Korte "You can't get there by bus, only by hard work and risk and by not quite knowing what you're doing. What you'll discover will be wonderful. What you'll discover will be yourself." - Alan Alda...
Get Out of the Car
– And Other Motivations By Maida Korte "You can't get there by bus, only by hard work and risk and by not quite knowing what you're doing. What you'll discover will be wonderful. What you'll discover will be yourself." - Alan Alda...
Bringing Simple In
By Maida Korte “You are exhausted, sweet one, exhausted from all the trying and the not trying, and you are struggling to trust life again. It's all too much for the poor organism, isn't it?”- Jeff Foster Each new...
Bringing Simple In
By Maida Korte “You are exhausted, sweet one, exhausted from all the trying and the not trying, and you are struggling to trust life again. It's all too much for the poor organism, isn't it?”- Jeff Foster Each new...
The Purging
By Maida Korte “Her apartment in Stockholm might look as if a bomb had gone off in it, but mentally Salander was extremely well organized.”? Stieg Larsson Ever since reading Garrison Keillor’s essay on spring...
The Purging
By Maida Korte “Her apartment in Stockholm might look as if a bomb had gone off in it, but mentally Salander was extremely well organized.”? Stieg Larsson Ever since reading Garrison Keillor’s essay on spring...