Rooted in community.
Birch Hill Interiors is about more than beautiful spaces.
It’s about showing up for the people and places we call home.
Helping Our Twin Cities Neighbors
February 2026
When some of our Twin Cities neighbors found themselves afraid to leave their homes, I wanted to help. I reached out to my friend, Susan Foster of Happy Place Realty in Minneapolis. She was already organizing grocery deliveries, and she invited me to join her.
We gathered at Creative Church in Bloomington along with a large group of volunteers, part of a community effort that had already been running for weeks. Together we packed boxes of groceries, loaded up, and headed out to deliver them across the Twin Cities. At each door we left a box and moved on.
We did it over two Fridays, each one about half a day. One hundred boxes total. It wasn’t complicated. It wasn’t dramatic. It was just neighbors helping neighbors at a moment when that’s exactly what was needed.
A Holiday Tradition Worth Showing Up For
December 2025
When my realtor partner, Sandy Cleland of RE/MAX in Edina, invited me to help with her annual Santa Day client appreciation event, I didn’t hesitate.
It was a small, warm gathering at her Edina office, the kind of afternoon that feels genuinely festive rather than just decorated. There were photos with Santa, a magic show for the kids, cookies, and a hot chocolate bar that I helped set up and kept running throughout the event. Guests brought donations for a local food shelf, which felt like exactly the right spirit for the season.
I spent the afternoon mingling with Sandy’s clients: families, homeowners, people who trust her with one of the biggest decisions of their lives. It was a good reminder of why community matters in this work, and why I love partnering with people like Sandy who put their clients first long after the closing.
Neighbors, Cookouts, and Night to Unite
July 2025
Every summer the St. Paul Area Association of Realtors (SPAAR) hosts the SPAAR-B-Q, an outdoor cookout that feels less like a professional networking event and more like a neighborhood picnic. This past July I joined fellow SPAAR members for an afternoon of good food and easy conversation, and as a member of the Community Engagement Committee I had the enjoyable job of distributing Cub Foods gift cards and cases of water to help neighbors across the Twin Cities host Night to Unite block parties.
I’ve hosted my own block party a couple of times, including one memorable year when my ice cream sundae bar melted faster than I could serve it on a 90-degree day. The neighbors loved it anyway. Good neighbors show up for each other. That’s the whole point.
Staging Friends, Hair Nets, and Open Arms
November 2024
There’s something joyful about spending an afternoon with your people doing something that matters.
Last November fifteen of us from the Minneapolis chapter of the Real Estate Staging Association (RESA) gathered at Open Arms of Minnesota. Hair nets, aprons, and rubber gloves firmly in place, we helped prepare meals for critically ill Minnesotans and their families. Open Arms delivers these meals completely free of charge to people who need them most.
I spent the afternoon chopping. Others worked alongside me in their own stations doing what needed to be done. It was good work in good company, the kind of afternoon that reminds you why community matters.
If you haven’t heard of Open Arms, they’re worth knowing. Every meal they deliver costs about $11 and goes to someone fighting a serious illness who couldn’t otherwise access nourishing food. The work they do is extraordinary. If you’d like to learn more about Open Arms of Minnesota and the work they do, visit openarmsmn.org.
Home Staging for Any Kind of House
October 2024
On Halloween afternoon the St. Paul Area Association of Realtors (SPAAR) hosted Trunk or Treat, and I showed up as a witch.
My SUV rear hatch was decorated with an eerie haunted house backdrop and a sign that read “Home Staging for any kind of house!” Even a haunted house deserves good staging. Members decorated their trunks, passed out candy, and offered games to realtor members, their families, and neighbors from the surrounding community.
I ran a Witch Hat Toss game and honestly could barely keep up with the kids. Between tossing rings and handing out fun pens, erasers, and mini notepads, I had a drawing for a complimentary design consultation, because you never know who might need a good interior designer, witch or otherwise.
A Good Night’s Sleep
September — October 2024
Some projects stay with you.
My Very Own Bed (MVOB) is a Minneapolis nonprofit with a simple and powerful mission: providing beds and bedding to children in our community who don’t have one of their own. Every child deserves a safe, warm place to sleep. Not every child has one.
In September a group of us from the St. Paul Area Association of Realtors (SPAAR) had the privilege of assembling MVOB Dream Kits. Each one contained a new mattress pad, sheet set, comforter, pillow, stuffed toy, and a book. Then we delivered them to five homes and made up the beds ourselves, tucking in sheets, fluffing pillows, setting a stuffed toy just so. In each home there were children who had been sleeping on the floor.
Not anymore.
The following month six of us from SPAAR gathered again to make blankets for MVOB, just in time for colder weather. More good work in good company.
It was fun and rewarding in equal measure, the kind of work that puts everything else in perspective. If you’d like to learn more visit myveryownbed.org.
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