We are so excited to be back! Over the break Storied Coffee had a makeover and Rich discusses all the changes that were made to the shop. Maggie gives an update on her home renovation/addition and reveals her what her siding color will be!Submit your questions and feedback to housecoffeepodcast@gmail(.)comSpecial thanks as always to TJ McMaster for mixing and editing this episode.
Transcript
Intro:
Hey, you’re drinking house coffee – unfiltered conversations brewed at the intersection of real estate life and coffee shop service. We’re Maggie and Rich – local business owners and friends sharing stories and welcoming you to pull up a chair with us. The door’s always open. Let us pour you a cup.
Rich:
Megs hey
Maggie:
Rich,
Rich:
Good to see you.
Maggie:
Welcome back to House Coffee
Rich:
Same same although I have seen you a lot of days.
Maggie:
Yes
Rich:
In between the last time we talked and
Maggie:
It’s just not the same now.
Rich:
Now, I mean, no, not at all. It’s been the hottest minute since we’ve been hot on the mic.
Maggie:
Yeah.
Rich:
Yeah cool excited to be back
Maggie:
Me too, and I’m excited that we are switching up our release format true
Rich:
Talk about it.
Maggie:
We are releasing we were recording and releasing same week.
Rich:
Yeah. I’m excited about that.
Maggie:
Oh, yeah, good change. I think
Rich:
Yeah, so we’re gonna drop on Fridays.
Maggie:
Yep.
Rich:
You’re probably hearing this on Friday. Unless you’re hearing it after that but you didn’t hear it on Thursday
Maggie:
And
Rich:
What else was I gonna say about that? Just
Maggie:
According the same week?
Rich:
Yeah, exactly. Exactly. And I’ve always thought that what’s cool about podcasting is that it’s like a little bit real time kind of snapshot, you know. So when you go like a week and a half in between you just get there’s something lost in that for me, so. Yeah, yeah also excited.
Maggie:
Yep,
Rich:
Well Cool. What have you been listening to
Maggie:
What have I been listening to I’m so glad you asked. So I started listening to well over our break. I’ve been eating up a ton of podcasts and books and the book that I am currently listening to is called Big Magic. And it’s by Elizabeth Gilbert. And Elizabeth Gilbert is the author of epre love if her most famous book nice. Everyone knows her for that. I
Rich:
Was gonna say, do you know that one? Well, I’ve heard of that.
Maggie:
Yes. I have really been enjoying big Magic. It is a book about creativity. And I felt like I’ve been in sort of a creative rut. the past few months and this book is always recommended by a bunch of other like podcasters. I listened to a Beautiful Mess is the one I’m thinking of and particularly
Rich:
And I haven’t heard of it
Maggie:
And basically Elizabeth Gilbert Takes the concept of creativity and ideas and personifies it. And like the whole book it’s a pretty short read. It’s like take it’s like unleashing. It’s about like helping you Unleash Your Inner creativity, but by making it more of persona so I really like that. I really really to that and I’m really looking for ways to Like open opportunities for creativity to find its way into my life in whatever way possible. So
Rich:
A Persona like yeah, this is this feels Like A New Concept to me. So
Maggie:
Yeah, like
Rich:
A friend like another like a part like give it a personality or
Maggie:
Like
Rich:
Someone who comes and goes yes.
Maggie:
Yes all the above.
Rich:
Okay.
Maggie:
Yeah, so I recommend reading it if you find yourself in a creative rot and you’re looking for like a different perspective on how to spark that creativity and and I just have really been enjoying how she takes this concept of creativity and like almost makes it into this like not a person but like a like a magical thing. Yeah. Yeah, and you have to be like open and willing to receive creativity because creativity. Doesn’t hang around a long time. When it presents itself to you have to be like but also it can you have to be a willing to? Work with it and also be willing to let it go if it’s not. For you or if you take too long to accept its assignment.
Rich:
Wow sounds insightful actually.
Maggie:
Yeah. I think you would like it. Yeah.
Rich:
I love when there’s like a really really famous book by someone and then that’s all you know that person for or that’s the only title you know, but then that’s the same person has like this slew of other things that are maybe equally as good if not better not that I’ve read you love but just there’s like other things that just get so overshadowed or you never would associate
Maggie:
Right
Rich:
With them. So that sounds cool. Is this is this proceed that other one? Do you know
Maggie:
It’s after this book was written in 2015, so it’s not a new or book but it was written after Eat Pray
Rich:
Love. Got it. I wonder how much of that experience because I was so much like real life experience, right? So I wonder how much of this came out of.
Maggie:
Um, not just very different. It’s a very I’ve already pray love and it’s a very different. This is a very
Rich:
Different book so it Right.
Maggie:
So
Rich:
For sure.
Maggie:
Yeah. What have you been listening to?
Rich:
A little bit of everything A little bit of everything I think most consistently lately. I’ve been surprised at how much I’ve been engaging with this one podcast a little more on it’s a little more it’s definitely on you know, the spiritual side of life formula, but it’s called the rule of Life podcast by practicing the way and just kind of out of nowhere. It’s basically I found this like sermon or teaching clip on Instagram. I reshared it to my stories because I found it refreshing. And then a couple people hit me up with what? I knew who the guy was but a couple people hit me up was like what it was from and then that led me to this podcast that that I have found. Refreshing. I I I’m not having a crisis of Faith, but I’m having like a crisis of Christians and
Maggie:
Then there
Rich:
I To find it very I’m going to interesting place in my life. This is why I never know how to talk about this stuff because I don’t know how to relate to my faith right now in the sense that like I have it, you know, I believe very traditionally in terms of the Christian faith and the person of Jesus But I don’t know how to relate that to my broader contexts because I don’t identify at all with conservative politicism. That is often linked with Conservative Christian faith. I don’t know if there’s a clear or more succinct way to put
Maggie:
Pretty how I yeah
Rich:
Have been living or experi or thinking lately. And by the way that I mean years and so this is incredibly refreshing because nothing they’re saying is linked at all with politicism yet. It’s incredibly. Orthodox if you will like Like true to traditional understandings of Christian teaching but more specifically it’s really just centered in. relating with Jesus and a way that is also very open-eared to criticisms that get leveled against Christianity from like more liberal or Progressive. strains of Christian thought so you kind of have to be an Insider a little bit to understand some of what I just said, and I’m don’t really Want to unpack it here, but more or less. It’s like people who believe what I believe about God. Saying the things that people who believe differently. Yeah, it’s hard on back. I guess maybe check it out for yourself if you’re interested and just know that I find it really refreshing as someone who’s been having a crisis of Christians in my life. It’s called the rule of Life podcast.
Maggie:
Okay
Rich:
By practicing the way and the whole point of it. All is to say look as Christians. We often miss out on actually practicing the ways of Jesus. So things like The Sabbath or or even more broadly rest now. I’m on to this set of teachings about prayer and there’s a whole bunch of other what we might call disciplines or or practices that they’re gonna they’re gonna walk through in a series of podcasts and it’s a whole Round Table of people is like three or four people, you know, it’s diverse. There’s There’s multiple. Just there’s multiple perspective represented and they’re all after this one thing that’s like genuine experience of of God and imagine that so I have found a refreshing. I’m not saying that I’m putting it into practice so much but I’m it’s it’s making me. Realized that there’s there’s more to ways of practicing. My faith that are maybe more in line with the heart of it all which is what I suspected then. Then I’ve been finding. On Instagram on Instagram. Yeah. So, I don’t know if that I don’t know. I don’t know. That’s what I’ve been listening to you.
Maggie:
I can
Rich:
Mostly I
Maggie:
Can relate to being at that stage of my faith.
Rich:
Yeah. cool Well, let’s talk about sometimes sometimes. Yeah, we talk about it. This is the kind of thing that I wish I could share with a lot of different people in my life because I’m like, this is what we’ve been looking for. Yeah,
Maggie:
You know
Rich:
Now that it’s a Magic Bullet guy. There’s not there’s nothing nothing perfect in life. I’m not looking for like the the one right thing or the best thing. I’m just saying this is like a refreshing expression of this. That I never knew was out there. Yeah,
Maggie:
You
Rich:
Know because for me it’s usually like okay conservative belief. or liberal belief.
Maggie:
Yeah, but
Rich:
In other words the Bible’s true or it’s or the Bible is less, you know reliable. It’s those are kind of the two strains but this is like none of the Bible’s true. But all the other things that you wish were true are actually also true such as like we should care about You know things that like we should care about some liberal clinical ideas more than conservatives would have you understand even as Christians? Period so yeah, yeah.
Maggie:
So much to say so little time.
Rich:
No different pod.
Maggie:
Yeah,
Rich:
Not House Coffee so much.
Maggie:
Maybe like House Coffee after hours, maybe after it.
Rich:
Yeah house cat House Coffee Sabbath addition.
Maggie:
Yes, sure.
Rich:
You know I find myself thinking like That in a I think in a year and a half for now. I’m gonna I want to do all it takes from now until the the end of a year and a half from now to be set up to have a true Sabbath in my life. Not that it’s gonna be Sunday is necessarily, but just to have a 24-hour period of Of like rest no work. No. Nonsense.
Maggie:
Yeah, you
Rich:
Know. naps,
Maggie:
Yeah,
Rich:
Naps and books and prayer family and just
Maggie:
Oh man good
Rich:
Times.
Maggie:
I I can name it. Yeah, well, that’s I think all you do that I mean, yeah, I think it depends on how extreme you take it. There are some people who practice Sabbath and are just like very very Direct about it for the sake of just following a rule
Rich:
Totally and what’s nice about this. It’s there’s no sense of that at all. Yes. This is like you don’t even necessarily have to do it. It’s like yeah to do it God even provisioned for it and and like it’s kind of on you if you’re not doing it a little bit.
Maggie:
I’m not arguing. /
Rich:
How do we help each other do it? You know.
Maggie:
Yeah. Yeah. I’m not arguing against the day of rest. I guess. I’m just cautious about the Boxing it in.
Rich:
Yeah, exactly. Same
Maggie:
To us at a roll
Rich:
Same which is which is why I find it. So refreshing the way they’re talking about it. I think that’s what I like about. It’s like it’s like all the concerns you would have about thinking about things like this, you know, the the strictness the the rules for the sake of rules or the practice for the sake of rules kind of stuff like those are the the reasons why myself and so many shy away sometimes from more rigid or quote unquote conservative ways of believing but this is like That’s almost antithetical to the way these guys are talking about it. That’s why I find a refreshing.
Maggie:
Interesting. Yeah.
Rich:
And that’s why I wanted that’s why I think other people in my life would find it interesting as well.
Maggie:
Well, that’s a good second. Yes.
Rich:
How did you rest? I know.
Maggie:
We have coffee have been arrest.
Rich:
Ed it was more restful more restful for some of us.
Maggie:
Yeah and storied coffee was on. Was closed I don’t I don’t think you were resting those two weeks. Although I’m sure you would have loved to
Rich:
I was anti resting and I would have loved more rest.
Maggie:
Yeah,
Rich:
But you are. Yeah, we closed the shop for two weeks.
Maggie:
Yeah, tell us about the past couple weeks. Yeah that has been like for storage. Yeah,
Rich:
We We’re close almost two and a half weeks really like because we’re not open on Tuesdays. Mondays or Tuesdays and so from our last Sunday of service we closed for two weeks through Labor Day and then Tuesday and Wednesday have that same week. So you know, I I think Abby got more days off than she ever has since starting to work for us. So I was happy about that. She did. Not that much stuff at the shop in those two weeks. I was pleased for her and proud of her and we needed so I know I know that like people need to break. We need a break even if you’re not. Even if you’re still working taking a break from like the the regular routines is still a break and it’s it’s important. I think to look for ways to do that, you know, the Miss sales whatever like you got to just
Maggie:
Yeah,
Rich:
Eventually we’ll talk about currencies and how there’s more to life than just number like money dollar signs and that will be so so there was other things that needed to happen in that window of time Christina the same time off from work from school and and vischer Ferry my other we know where I we’re actually work more day to day personally. They were closed for the second of those two weeks as well. So it was just kind of like lined up with a bunch of different things. But I also saw that as an opportunity to maybe. Implement some of the things we have been talking about with like how to curate the vibe a little bit differently and maybe create more of a cleaner Cozier. Type of of space and largely. We we got there. I’m very pleased with the results we could talk about some of the things you were very instrumental in a lot of it Hands-On and also the design kind of process but we There’s still a couple buttons to to loose ends to tie up. even now as we speak I got a Do the the back room ironically which is the one big idea that we we shared here. It’s sort of we cleaned it out. We got it in position, but that’s also became where all the extra crap ended up. Yeah that we needed to clear out of the cafe space to open the doors last Wednesday. So tying that up but Yeah that became. I became the big project and then Fisher ferry to I won’t talk a lot about that right now, but they the whole reason I worked there is because of this expansion. project that had been underway for the last couple months which is where we’re moving all the retail products out of the cafe space to be able to bring seating back indoors and have more of a coffee shop Cafe Vibe inside which we anticipated more foot traffic as a result, but also take all that real retail stuff and move it into a space next door to have this cozy little gifts like and and Yeah, a retail Boutique that’s basically appended to or adjacent to to the cafe at Visionary. And so that project was completing over the week. We were closed there and we had a grand opening this past Saturday Sunday. Well received good weekend. Yeah, so that that was a big thing and I was largely. A part of big part of like making that happen too. So I just had all that stuff like pile up at the same time. and Yeah, so if you have specific questions, I can answer them. I mean
Maggie:
So
Rich:
That’s basically my two weeks. So
Maggie:
What did you learn in those two weeks?
Rich:
Oh my gosh, what did I learn? Well, I think some lessons hard to learned involved like better planning. And coordinating of things ahead of time. I don’t know that I could like I couldn’t I learned things that I couldn’t afford seen perhaps
Maggie:
Like what
Rich:
I like this. I mean I say that I want to say that because Like the amount of work that had to be done. And how it had to break down. Was was bigger. than I then I guess I thought and you know, it’s stored
Maggie:
Moving of stuff.
Rich:
I think.
Maggie:
The assembling of stuff the rearranging
Rich:
I I think I’m mostly mean the cleaning. So the organizing the cleaning the pudding back of stuff.
Maggie:
Yeah,
Rich:
You know and then that leaves a trail of cardboard and pieces and
Maggie:
Oh my gosh down like probably like 20 cardboard boxes. Yeah and like one hour. Yeah.
Rich:
So like physically having to
Maggie:
I made it up my personal goal. Sorry to keep in trouble. Yes, but I made in my personal goal to get rid of it as many cardboard boxes. I could physically get my hands on. That’s
Rich:
Awesome.
Maggie:
I’m fine them.
Rich:
Yeah, and then I put them in my van. I found them in up with my van and brought them to Vision fairy because we have a
Maggie:
Cardboard.
Rich:
So that was pretty handy. I think there’s still even maybe more to collect a little bit. I gotta clean up the backs the back outside still hot mess out there but Yeah, and then we had so many books. To put on the new shelves that we got about 10. Billy bookcases for my Kia
Maggie:
10.
Rich:
Yeah.
Maggie:
Two
Rich:
In the back room
Maggie:
And they’re all matching
Rich:
Six in the front room two in the middle
Maggie:
And you sold some bookcase some old bookcases. Yeah,
Rich:
All the shelves that we had in there. Not all but I had I had five. old Ikea shelves from our first iteration of story that were all sold and delivered to happy buyers
Maggie:
Sweet from
Rich:
On over just from one instagram story. I got all them sold and three out of four of those people overpaid.
Maggie:
Oh
Rich:
Probably be I mean, they might have done it anyway because they’re nice but also at you know, the delivery I didn’t yeah, the delivery was included, but then it ended up where That’s all people pay a little extra. So here’s a lesson one. People are generous two. in that same line like we put it out there a couple times on the stories like and I I think we always do this whenever we have like a work day or something coming up because you know, we know there’s this kind of people who follow us and who are local who are like if you put it out. They’re like, hey come hang and help they would, you know, not just our friends like you but But people responded to invitations like that sometimes often less than I would actually expect which I understand that’s totally fine. But then I’m always surprised by the people who do show up. And the level of commitment they have so down to the wire. Okay take so we’re opening Wednesday right take Tuesday morning. I’m at Restaurant Depot and I run into Sue from pong Bakery and I never see her there. I just happen to run into that day. And I was looking for Dragons. Yeah, I might have been on the phone. I think I had headphones in I didn’t I didn’t happen to have Oliver with me but I often bring him. So I’m often running the Restaurant Depot in strap to me strapped my front and so I happen to not have that going on at the same time, but I was like carrying my my remarkable with the shopping list on it and I saw her and just like I was looking stressed, you know and And so she texted me later on and was like Hey, I can come over and help for a little while if if you want and I wasn’t even gonna be there but I knew Abby was there. So I was like, yeah, feel free, you know, thanks. So sue went. I think you were there and you are. Yeah. So you were there you were there several days, even when I wasn’t there people were willing to go and help out, you know, then Becca had text Becca had responded to one of our Instagram stories shout out back. I was shot around She had responded when we first posted about the bookshelves because they came in earlier than expected. And so she was out of town until Tuesday or whatever working and she as I cool well again touch if you want and then she was the one who reached back out to us when she was and the most actually all the bookshelves were done by then, but she would willing to come and help out and by that time like only the gnarliest jobs were left like the giant pile of dishes that hadn’t been touched in the two weeks of our closure and I was like, I mean it sucks but This is would be not helpful and she’s like totally she just didn’t even bat and I did all the dishes. That’s the truest friend you haven’t left is the one who comes and there have been several times in the
Maggie:
Story and your freezer.
Rich:
Did you clean out freezer? Yes, so true that one defrost. Yeah,
Maggie:
Okay.
Rich:
Yeah, I’m just thinking about that cheers. So those are the kinds of jobs. We’re like people show up and then I had a family I had this like other group of storied Pals that like, you know, they the regulars but we had put this thing out there and they came on Labor Day. I spent like four maybe five hours just just wiping down books because we have all these, you know resell used books. So wiping down books and like getting them on the shelves and I just could let them.
Maggie:
Yeah
Rich:
Run with that and they were super generous to spend their whole day doing that. So that was cool. Shout out to so
Maggie:
For somebody who’s never put in style of Story Coffee. Could you give like a quick explanation of what it looked like before and what it looks like now?
Rich:
Yeah
Maggie:
Creative visual for us.
Rich:
Can I do that? Well, yes, I will cheat a little bit by saying you can get that. Physical visual for yourself because I had we did a we did it before and after walk through. On one of the latest reels on the storied coffee Instagram.
Maggie:
Okay,
Rich:
I so I took a walk-through video before I didn’t think I would use it until I saw your walkthrough video from after we opened and then I said, oh I basically have the same video from before so you can go get a sneak peek. Doing that but more or less.
Maggie:
Okay, then how would you describe the vibe before and how would you describe the vibe now?
Rich:
Well, it’s funny because whenever we started talking about all this I thought the vibe that we would end up with would be more cozy and more like Comfortable and more homey. And I think we I think we did get some of that but less than I thought like the the feeling now. Is actually one that’s a little more. So I guess I’m gonna start I’m gonna go back and forth with this as I talk about it. The feeling now is like it’s a little more clean. And put together there’s less it feels less cluttered, which is actually ultimately what I what I wanted. So it feels less cluttered and more organized. Than it did. Before before there were there was a very inefficient book. Shelving. So I had a hodgepodge of like different heights and widths and whatever of bookshelves and there was even a table in the front with with like always books. Just kind of scattered about and and books still in boxes. And in that last week because I knew I didn’t have I didn’t have time to organize them and I knew we were closing like there was literally a pile of books. You could see it in that video. There’s just a pile of bags and boxes of books in front of this little like Buffet Hutch thing that that was in the in the right when you walk in just a pile of books on the floor, which is you know, in one sense. There are bookshops that look like that but it wasn’t that great compared with what it ended up turning into in terms of like really tall clean looking bookshelves with Full books that are just the look nice we did change out. The seats in the window. So that is a really cool Vibe. We got four antique chairs. Two of them through this process and the other two we had picked up. A couple months ago, but we got these four antique chairs with what do you call that canine? Yeah, so they’re like vintage. Style and then we got these little coffee tables that you picked up that we put with them or end tables that that work really well with those it wasn’t plans on them. So right in the front windows are really cool Vibe. I like that’s comfortable and I guess I was just thinking like in my mind. I was picturing a little bit more of that kind of comfy chairs cozy chairs in the front room, but those are the ones we had and where they ended up fitting. Feels really great. I think and I like that that’s from the outside. Exactly. Yeah from the outside or right inside is just it’s it’s the right entry point and nothing. Yeah it is and then we have the two armchairs that we always had in the same spot that they’ve always been right in the corner, but next to those are three tall bookshelves. With with like clean looking books right there and then and then turn around and just as you walk in where I was just describing that mess of books now. There are also three Three sick looking bookshelves right there. We got this cool vintage. We made a couple changes behind the bar. We got this cool like vintage metal. Hut
Maggie:
Yeah
Rich:
That we replaced this ugly like metro style shelf
Maggie:
Yeah
Rich:
With and so that gave it a little homie vibrant there and we took one of the bookshelves we had been using and put it behind the counter and I want to clean that up a little bit like like organize the stuff on it better and maybe put I don’t know some homie items on it. We didn’t move the plants around that we talked about before because that was the other thing right when you walk in on that ugly Buffet. We had the we had all the plants kind of centralized and then they were also in the front room, but we kind of spread those out and put them up high on top of things and let the like so the plants are looking a little more
Maggie:
Intentional
Rich:
Intentional I guess and and we have these really long viny ones. that we were able to kind of like pin up the The different yeah stems or I don’t know talk about plants very like pin up some of the arms of the plants and yeah string them out. So they so looks it looks a little bit cooler and they kind of hang down from the the tall bookshelf behind the bar now and what else we didn’t move that buffet from the front room to over by the cash wrap as you call it. I don’t know anyone. Who calls that the cash, right?
Maggie:
That’s what we call it a Pottery Barn
Rich:
So funny. So the count the front counter the bar we have the buffet over by that and some plants still on that we got to that space has to be worked out a little bit better and then we moved a fridge. From the back room to right there that is kind of dual purpose of our stock slash the top half of the left side is going to be like the grab and go. Fridge, so that’ll work. Well, and then the back the back. Didn’t lose any seating, which is cool.
Maggie:
Yeah.
Rich:
The back makes the most sense for like those bigger like the four seaters. Yeah. We got a few we’ve had a few of those. So those are all back there. But we added like a little kids like a baby Barista cart.
Maggie:
Yeah,
Rich:
You and Christine put together. Christine’s been really excited about that for a long time. So, we finally got that thing belt. We’ve had a sense. Before all it was born. Yeah, it was a baby gift. So we got that out. It’s in the corner. We put the kids give a book take a book. Yeah situation back there as well. and a couple more bookshelves in that area. I did we did end up repurposing. I think you’ve seen it. But last minute I ended up just moving the bookshelves that were in the back there. We have some smaller ones. I moved them to next to the basically surrounding the bathroom door. And so that feels cozy. I kind of like that. I didn’t that wasn’t a plan. But just yeah just fell into place it may or may not stay that way but
Maggie:
Yeah, there was one that was next to the bathroom door and then there was another one that was just kind of like floating in the middle of the shop. So I just pushed it to the other side of the bathroom door like moved some plants over there. So yeah disburse it a little bit.
Rich:
Yeah, so that’s cool.
Maggie:
He’s also a window over there too. Yeah,
Rich:
The only the only bad thing about the not even the Shelf you’re talking about but the other shelf on the other side of the door, is that it? But if we keep the table where it is, we lose a chair.
Maggie:
Oh
Rich:
Because the table ends up right up against that bookshelf and then you have the chair. Can’t go there. So now there’s like a three-seater so that we could move the table over but then it’s off center. Currently. The table is centered with the signs that hang on the on the back wall the storied sign. So, I mean, I don’t know how much I care about that or not, but that’s why it’s positioned right in the middle of the wall there.
Maggie:
Well, you have something other four seaters next
Rich:
To it. Yeah, there are and ultimately if someone was really dedicated to kid grab another chair and Just fudge it.
Maggie:
Yeah.
Rich:
So then we haven’t opened the back room yet to guess. We put two shells back there. And I don’t even know you know, actually, we’ll have to look at it and discuss this because I ended up flipping the script on a little bit. I made the shelves to the other wall.
Maggie:
I think it was
Rich:
The opposite wall from what we said. So that I could put the tables in the little Nook. I think that because the tables otherwise couldn’t really go in there because of where the door open. Yes, you know. And so call. Yeah it just kind of like game time decision. So I think that’ll be cool because It’s like two basically have two two seaters in there. They could go next to each other but two two seater tables and it’s like a cozy but it’s still cozy little room. So I think once I get more the Clutter out of there. And we just have the those shelves and then the two’s tables and it’s a little more cleaned up around the sink. I think that’ll be a pretty cool Vibe. That’ll be a little bit sought after for seeding. Yeah
Maggie:
For sure.
Rich:
I’m excited to get reactions on that.
Maggie:
I feel more right. So I feel like you’re the type of person that wants to just like Focus. Yeah some work done.
Rich:
Yeah, and there’s outlets on that wall. I didn’t even know there’s an outlet on that wall or the seats are there’s a four
Maggie:
What?
Rich:
Four days, I don’t think they called a four gang. That’s I yeah, you’re gonna hide on the back.
Maggie:
I’m gonna put my name. I
Rich:
Don’t think I want to have a door or a curtain or anything on that. I think I want to just be an open. So you as you walk back, you’ll see that room because you see the shelves. Through the doorway and then you’ll kind of be invited in that way. Also the temperature differential is so dramatic. So if the curtain is closed, there’s no cold air going in and it’s gonna get super cold in there
Maggie:
Talking about the curtain where the door used to be.
Rich:
Yeah. We took the door off.
Maggie:
No, I know
Rich:
There’s a curtain now, but the curtain is very Effective yeah in in keeping the air from flowing. So I think we just want to do away with the curtain on the door and maybe just have a curtain that blocks the sink.
Maggie:
You could put a window unit in that window if you really wanted to
Rich:
Sure, that’s that’s ultimately true.
Maggie:
Just saying next time
Rich:
You were changing seasons right now. So we’ll see what the Bible but I ultimately just don’t think I want to closed off. I know that I was like
Maggie:
If the doors open your library hot in there you can supplement it with a window unit.
Rich:
Right. I’m talking visually.
Maggie:
Okay,
Rich:
Visually, I want you to walk to the back of the store and then look to your side and see oh, there’s even another room and you’re just automatically gonna be invited in because you can see the shelves in there.
Maggie:
Yeah,
Rich:
Then you’ll walk in and find that there’s tables in there.
Maggie:
Yeah.
Rich:
So I just don’t think I want the separation of the current at all the curtain well, we’ll kind of remove well,
Maggie:
I’m agreeing with
Rich:
We’ll adjust the curtain so that the sink part is cut off and so you won’t you walk in you just have
Maggie:
Yeah,
Rich:
The the room.
Maggie:
Yeah,
Rich:
Cool cool.
Maggie:
I’m
Rich:
A little bit of a different way than we had originally thought or said of like this cool secret.
Maggie:
Yeah
Rich:
Library Vibe. I think I think we’re kind of Were were honoring that concept by using the room? And making
Maggie:
All excited you’re using the room
Rich:
A Nook type of thing, but
Maggie:
Amazing. Yeah,
Rich:
Dude, that
Maggie:
Was such a wasted potential.
Rich:
I know it was just so much crap and storage and messy. But I mean when you get in there, that’s like it’s a good size space.
Maggie:
I know
Rich:
Definitely wasted like you’re saying I
Maggie:
Know yeah.
Rich:
But there was a lot of crap to move out of there. So I mean it was we definitely needed the time. It was not clear that one out
Maggie:
As you say
Rich:
It was.
Maggie:
Yeah, pretty gnarly
Rich:
The cover everything
Maggie:
I think so, I guess
Rich:
How would you just grab the vibe?
Maggie:
How would I just grab the Bible
Rich:
Now
Maggie:
Now
Rich:
Versus later in a few words. I mean, I’ve
Maggie:
Definitely more organized. Yeah,
Rich:
Definitely.
Maggie:
Cleaner more streamlined I like that. They’re all the bookshelves are the same because you’re books. I think it’s different. having okay in a home It’s okay having different. Shape and sizes for bookshelves because it’s your home and it’s a style but when you’re selling a product you want things to be and look and feel streamlined. Yeah, that’s what these bookcases do. They kind of like you don’t want to see the bookcases. You want to see the books.
Rich:
Yeah. That’s a good point
Maggie:
So that I really like
Rich:
And I think there’s another thing we didn’t really speak to this going into it too much. But like the other thing we needed to do was make it more of a Bookshop, you know, because we’ve always said coffee bubble books for last year, but now like so I was I was making it into a used bookstore but this is like the okay now, it’s officially yeah a bookstore. now it’s because like we intentionally installed this this thing so now you would walk in and you would think of this as a Bookshop with the quantity of books. We’ll work on the organization of them but the quantity of books and the display as you’re talking about of books makes it gives it more. Like I wanted to I needed a more official.
Maggie:
Yeah,
Rich:
Like Line in the Sand hey, this is actually we’re we’re a Bookshop as much as we are these other things I want that that needs to become part of our our thing because that’s our retail products. That’s our retail offering now is like is used books.
Maggie:
Yeah
Rich:
More than Any other retail type of thing?
Maggie:
Yeah,
Rich:
But we’re more than just coffee and Boba too. We got to have so yeah,
Maggie:
You’re you’re like pivoting and a little bit of from being stored coffee to being like storied books. Yeah. Which isn’t a bad thing because you’re still gonna I you’ll you’re always gonna have that specialty coffee, right?
Rich:
But
Maggie:
I really like that you’re leaning into and you’re really embracing the books now instead of being like before you were like dabbling in it.
Rich:
Yeah, so true
Maggie:
And now you’re like no this is what this is what we’re special.
Rich:
Yeah. Yeah,
Maggie:
And that can be a destination thing too.
Rich:
Exactly. Exactly. Also, fun fact for anyone local. Did you end up going to the garage sale?
Maggie:
Which garage sale
Rich:
When I told you?
Maggie:
No, I didn’t
Rich:
Know that
Maggie:
I
Rich:
Ended up. That was a date a couple days before all of this. Putting books on shelves. I ended up finding. a listing on Facebook Marketplace for a book sale, but sometimes I have found that some people are mostly just trying to get rid of a lot of books. And so they do it this way, but I’m the kind of guy. I’m like If they’re advertising low prices per book then I’m like hey, what would you take for the whole? Pile and I have a couple times I’ve been able to just go snag an entire. Book sale. Yeah, and so that is how we sometimes get books. Little protests / fun fact for you. Yeah,
Maggie:
And
Rich:
It turned out to be okay get this first of all this sorry to get into this but I show up to this person’s house. I didn’t realize who they were. It was someone who owns a local business that I had worked for. For a short period of time just as a seasonal thing while I Own Story. This was only a couple years ago. I saw this listing pretty casual. I was like, okay, I could use a few extra bucks, you know, so I’m like It was like an evening thing and I just went a couple a few times and helped this local person. So I didn’t realize it was the same person. So I roll up the rock up to her house and and I almost thought at first because I don’t see I don’t that was back like mask days. So I don’t even like have a strong facial recognition for her. So I didn’t want to sorry. I was like, I think that looks like that person and then she recognized me. Actually. I don’t even think she recognize me until I said story to explain why I was buying those books and she was like, oh we you worked for me and then I was like, that’s cool. Well then come to find out that She seems to be married to a local senator of a recognition and
Maggie:
Too funny
Rich:
And they don’t share the last name and that’s why I wouldn’t have ever known. Like I had no clue they were they were a family
Maggie:
And
Rich:
I know clue that was gonna be his house, but he’s a town, you know local town. Center from this District.
Maggie:
Yeah, and
Rich:
So the whole thing was they’re actually moving because of redistricting so they have to move after like 15 years in this problem. But you know, there’s a realtor that’s just probably not that’s the reason for getting all those
Maggie:
Mmm.
Rich:
Getting rid of a lot of books at once. So it just ended up being like and I went late. It was like 8:30 by the time. Because they were doing it. This is Friday night. I think they were doing the sale Saturday morning. So they would rather have just had them come have them go before the sale even had to bother otherwise would have gone early the next day. So, you know the Senators literally just helping box up his books and Carries shorts like just casual Friday at the Senator’s house and with this, you know, local business owner. It was a pretty cool experience and then I literally texted you from the end of the road not the driveway. So that would be a little creepy. It’s actually from the road and I said hey garage sale at this house tomorrow.
Maggie:
I was actually really sad I couldn’t go because I was destaging a house with Joe and I had to meet him at 8:30 and we were there for like six hours.
Rich:
Yes. Yeah, it was sweat and see that day.
Maggie:
Yeah.
Rich:
Yeah, the sale was like at 8:30. So yeah, anyway fun stories that happened behind the scenes that you just you just wouldn’t know and I’m like not politically Affiliated either. So it’s a me. It’s just another person person in a sense. But but I knew that was like a fun. Funny thing to share. Yeah. Yeah sure that texted Christine too right away. I was like plot twist. Yeah. so anyway So a lot of the books on the shelves currently are from
Maggie:
That senator from that house
Rich:
Senator’s house. Yeah. I won’t tell you which ones because I don’t have a way of truly knowing
Maggie:
Yeah.
Rich:
Is that enough about that? Are you questions?
Maggie:
I guess I had. One more question which is kind of like a broad but like what are your goals now? Like what are your future goals for storied? And in terms of the vibe,
Rich:
Yeah in
Maggie:
Terms of talked about that a little bit.
Rich:
Okay. So here’s what I see happening. I’m glad you asked that. Thank you. I think we’re gonna continue to trickle in more changes because I still want to figure out how to just continue to make it a little more. Like comfortable and homey feeling so that might have to do with like the the table chairs. That we have that you know the cafe chairs might change out shared one I do with you that’s gonna be a little bit more like opportunistic. Like I find the right ones. I’m not really interested in buying new things per se most of the stuff we’ve been doing I did buy the bookshelves new just because
Maggie:
Continuity they
Rich:
Were affordable and you want to have yeah quality and continuity.
Maggie:
You have been looking for matching bookcases for a long time
Rich:
Dude. Yeah. I’ve said it a couple times like so hard to find
Maggie:
So hard to find
Rich:
So I just didn’t even bother and Ikea had an affordable well reviewed option. Time tested so that totally worked but yeah, I think I think more like stylistic changes will probably do the the chairs. I still really am attached to this idea of this vintage refrigerator. Hmm that I shared. I just I feel like that’s missing now that feels like a missing piece of the puzzle for me. So I’m gonna still poke at how I can maybe make that work. Spoiler alert the concept is that I want to find a vintage. I found a vintage working generally electric refrigerator. And I want to replace our retail fridge. So like you’re grabbing go fridge with this. Home classic unit, right because I think there is something really cool. I’m not just vintage. I’m not into vintage for the like because it’s vintage. I’m into the Vintage because it’s functional. Typically. I’m into functional vintage SO stuff you can this is probably why people like the clothes like you can still get used out of them. They’re still there’s even more character and like a story to the things you’re You’re handling that are vintage. And so that you know when you can actually sit in chairs and then and and have working clock radios from literally literal decades ago. That to me. I don’t I’m just collecting these things because they look cool like they they work they transport you. when you can use them, so to have a working 70 year old refrigerator from 1953 that you pull the latch and like open it up and there’s your bottles of water and San Pellegrino and they’re just like You get to engage with that? To me, that’s and it but it’s all but it’s a home, you know, it’s an old style home thing and it’s just like you wouldn’t expect that. So I think that would do a lot of tie some of the space together. But also
Maggie:
Even though you’re you could have you know, you’re catching clothes is at one o’clock for sandwiches, but you could have people call ahead and order their sandwich. You could just stick it in the fridge. Yeah.
Rich:
The only the only problem is that with a thing like that. You technically need to have a commercial rated fridge to do I I think the technicality I’m banking on here is that I could put non-perishables in there like what things that don’t technically need to be refrigerated. They’re just chilled for Quality inconvenience so things that wouldn’t be perishable. I would put in this fridge which are the basically the things I have in our current retail for it, you know, senpal Greeno and whatever like even kombucha. I don’t know if I would keep in there. I think I might keep dummy cans in there and then be like Yeah, we actually have that behind the bar but it’s you know, like representative samples. But the what the problem with this particular fridge you’re like well, why aren’t you doing it? It’s that this particular fridge is literally 70 years old and The person I was going back and forth with the guy basically there’s a part. That like the the fridge runs cold. It’s it’s at a safe temperature. Like it runs like 36 degrees, but it doesn’t regularly, you can’t really adjust that and it doesn’t regulate that. Well, so it kind of like dips below freezing and when stuff freezes it explodes. And so I mean I’m if if it turns into a thing where it’s just gonna like freeze stuff and it’s gonna explode all the time. So, I don’t know how consistently it stays at the 36 or even 30 for 35 36 degrees. Like that’s that’s good
Maggie:
Pretty close. That’s
Rich:
That’s actually good fridge temp. But only if your fridge works, you know works well and regulates that because that is on the cost of freezing. and I don’t know where this thing and like I looked at the look for the part of the guy even said for two years had been searching for the part but It’s been it’s been Elusive and I that’s the thing with an old fridge like this. So I’m like, all right. Do I keep going with this concept and just look for a different one. I’m not again. I’m not interested in a Westinghouse or some other brand or even necessarily as different style of GE Fridge like this particular one is not like it’s in good condition. It looks Sick, I even want to I almost want to just get it. Just for the decor aspect that’s how dedicated I am to the the concept. But again, it’s it really needs to be justified by functionality.
Maggie:
Yeah
Rich:
For me
Maggie:
For sure
Rich:
For this business.
Maggie:
You get the thing or you get the space.
Rich:
That’s true.
Maggie:
That’s the home edit says
Rich:
That’s a good that’s a good thing to say. Thanks home at it. Yeah, so I’m still thinking about that one. I mean, it’s still out there on Facebook and I got the guys contact but Um, so yeah, so stuff like that and then just putting things back in a in a nice way on the rest of the shelves. The books could be better organized. and yeah, I don’t and then maybe like, oh we wanted we had stuff. We wanted to hang that never got hung so stuff like that. Yeah,
Maggie:
Some
Rich:
Dick should basically just now just the finishing touches the day core choices. I I there’s it feels like there’s space in the front room to maybe do a different style of chairs. Currently. There’s two two seater tables with four chairs. In the middle of the room and that’s how it’s been. Yeah, and so I wouldn’t want to lose those seats, but I wonder if we could find something a little. Cozier or more living room style there But other than all of that, I think that’s it, you know. I definitely think that having a cleaner look to things ultimately makes it feel better.
Maggie:
Yeah, and
Rich:
That consumers like that kind of thing. So as homie as a place can be when it’s a little cluttered or you know, the decor is rustic or vintage or home or whatever. The it’s still a commercial environment and people feel better in a cleaner spot. So
Maggie:
They do.
Rich:
That’s that’s it.
Maggie:
I want to come back.
Rich:
Yeah, that’s that’s key.
Maggie:
That’s amazing.
Rich:
So, I don’t know if that answers your questions. There’s a couple like little there’s a cool little thing that we’re not quite sharing yet because we’re still putting it in place. but big change coming to the food program
Maggie:
Cool
Rich:
That storied. That should be cool should be cool. So, oh the other thing um, I’m in talks with a sign company to get window lettering and stuff. So the front is gonna finally have like our name on
Maggie:
Gotcha.
Rich:
So hopefully that’ll help. It looks cool. And there’s like a little Cheers theme like, you know, the show Cheers like I’m playing with the Cheers theme through all that so I won’t get into that now but that
Maggie:
Yeah that’s coming. That’s
Rich:
The last little the last little touch up for the The decor the Renault as it were
Maggie:
Yeah.
Rich:
Yeah, so shoutout to you for all the insight and design advice and literal Hands-On help. Can it done it get it done without you.
Maggie:
I love stuff like this. Yeah,
Rich:
Well obviously
Maggie:
Thrive on it.
Rich:
Yeah, it’s your
Maggie:
It’s my thing.
Rich:
It’s your bread and butter.
Maggie:
Yeah, it’s
Rich:
Um I want to hear about your vacation. Listen, I’m
Maggie:
You don’t have time.
Rich:
We’re here. Listen. This was just gonna say a little disclaimer. We’re back. It’s been a while. If you need to just push pause. Now’s a good time. Come on back because we got a little more for this episode for you if you have time to record right now, that is
Maggie:
Yes. I have a minute. No,
Rich:
So yeah, let’s just take out because I want to hear about your break a little bit whatever you want to say and then we just want to drop a couple lines about the future.
Maggie:
Yes
Rich:
Of the pot. So
Maggie:
So my my break over the the podcast over before we went back to school as we call it
Rich:
Came back to school
Maggie:
Was pretty pretty good actually. I spent a majority of my time at story.
Rich:
Yeah, hoping majority
Maggie:
There. Yeah, like
Rich:
Probably half the time
Maggie:
Probably half the time but it’s okay because it’s actually like I actually find a lot of joy and fulfillment from from doing these projects. Otherwise, I wouldn’t own a staging business
Rich:
Totally
Maggie:
So part of part of what gets me going and gets me up in the morning is like being able to Do those Transformations for houses? And so that’s been fun? Brandon and I think we got more of like purse like I have more personal stuff that we’ve been working on we are. so close to putting the siding up on our Edition and if this is your first time listening to House Coffee or you haven’t heard in a while Brandon and I started an addition on our house last April, so that would be April 2022 and well, actually we started it in March actually because that’s when we had the foundation like Doug It’s a big it’s it’s been a huge project and we’ve been doing the work ourselves and to save money and just because Brandon is just someone who is very very Hands-On. so this has been a long time coming and we have Brandon and I’ve been going back and forth back and forth on. Color scheme for our house. What we what color siding we want to do? We redid our garage during the pandemic. Our house is a was built in 1910 and it’s mostly brick, but it was built as a chicken coop. And then it was converted into a residence in like the 40s
Rich:
Your house my
Maggie:
Actual house
Rich:
Built as a chicken coop.
Maggie:
Yes.
Rich:
And now it’s a house.
Maggie:
Yes.
Rich:
Okay.
Maggie:
Did I never tell you that
Rich:
You did but I just had to happen
Maggie:
Okay. So yeah, that’s that’s a hundred percent true. We found out the day. We were closing. The former owners was like this used to be a chicken coop. And we’re like what
Rich:
We’re commercial Enterprise or what like
Maggie:
A farmer lived there with chickens,
Rich:
Okay.
Maggie:
That
Rich:
Live there.
Maggie:
Yes.
Rich:
And
Maggie:
The house has a detached garage,
Rich:
Right and
Maggie:
We redid the garage and Like did some like we jacked it up and added some, you know, storage and everything and we did white board and batten with black garage doors. And we also changed the orientation of our driveway. We live on a corner and our Drive our house faces one road. The front of our house face faces the one road and the river and our driveway was on the side road and we changed the we the garage stayed put but we just moved the garage doors and our driveway. So the face the same direction as our house facing the river and We have been we’ve had all these plans of in the future like putting an addition on the house. Mainly because the bedrooms are very tiny. And we just wanted to have a little bit more. Like bedroom space before we welcome kids into our home. And so that’s the main like Motivation for this Edition, so I also have a big family. We do most of the hosting when everybody comes into town, I have five sisters and one brother and when people come into town they stay at hotel from and so Which I love like it’s it’s totally like I love being host. But I have 16 nephews and nieces and I just also wanted to have like a more welcoming space for those kiddos to stay as well as my sisters and their spouses. And so anyways, long story short we Were doing this Edition which the addition? was only supposed to be a patio breezeway and the addition in the plans was called patio breezeway. Literally we bought a French door. And we were going to bump out. the downstairs area and change out a door that is what we were going to do. And then when we started this project Brandon’s like whoa, what if we like just bumped out this one little area of the room by like three feet and I was like, yeah well adding three feet when want to be that bad. Yeah, we could do that. And he’s like, well, what if we bumped it out like 10 feet? and I was like a lot of work Brandon. He’s like no. No, it’ll be fine. We’ll we’ll do this and this I’m like, okay and then he made the plans for and he’s like well since we’re bumping it out 10 feet, it’s really not gonna be that much more materials if we add a second floor above it. And I don’t know what I was smoking when I said yes, but I said I was like, okay we could do it and it just turned into like I feel like the addition is the same size as our house like we’ve doubled the size of our house pretty much sure. But in the end, I’m not completely. I mean I am complaining but I’m I’m gonna be really happy when it’s done. The problem right now is like it’s been a year and a half and we we haven’t even finished this Edition like it’s still the two by fours and insulation like none of the electrical or Plumbing or anything has been put in there. So It’s been a labor of love and and again Brandon’s been doing the majority of the work with our neighbor Brian. Shout out to Brian and Claire who are like the most amazing friends who we have like gotten to know and who have like adopted Us in this process and like now are like family and so what was I saying so our siding? over the break
Rich:
Yeah,
Maggie:
We are preparing to put up the siding on our Edition. And did I tell you what color we were gonna do? I want you to guess the color siding we’re gonna do you have three guesses?
Rich:
No. How specificness was
Maggie:
Just a color a color of siding for a house.
Rich:
What’s your current color?
Maggie:
Well our current our current it’s it’s Rick. Oh, it’s a brick house with whitesiding above it.
Rich:
Why do I feel like always yeah,
Maggie:
So guess just guess a color
Rich:
Green.
Maggie:
Nope.
Rich:
I didn’t think so. Gray,
Maggie:
Nope.
Rich:
Blue
Maggie:
No, we’re doing black
Rich:
Black siding.
Maggie:
Yes
Rich:
For you, I guess okay for your white. In black.
Maggie:
No, the whole house is gonna be black wig. Where are you? Sure. We’re changing out. The white
Rich:
Brick was black.
Maggie:
Yes. And we might paint the brick black.
Rich:
Oh interesting. We
Maggie:
Might we’re gonna work that we’re gonna save that to the end. We’re gonna see how the black siding looks. Yeah over the brick
Rich:
Like a shade of black or like it
Maggie:
Is carbon black Yep. The side like the sidings already in our garage. It’s filled to the brim with all the materials we need and we’re just been doing all the little minuscule tasks like flashing on the windows and like water tightening all the Staples on the Tyvek and like just buttoning up all these tasks that like you that aren’t like you don’t really get a good before and after for a photo like we sealed up that hole, you know,
Rich:
Here’s this area without Staples.
Maggie:
Yes. Exactly.
Rich:
It is here. Yes.
Maggie:
So the goal is to start putting up siding. Hopefully fingers crossed this weekend. If all goes well
Rich:
Cool.
Maggie:
So that’s what I’ve been we’ve been doing the last couple of weeks after work, and yes
Rich:
Three weeks post. The first time you told me you’re doing Saturday.
Maggie:
Yes.
Rich:
Wow, black strong Choice. Yeah,
Maggie:
That’s gonna look
Rich:
How’d you decide black siding? I I didn’t guess that one because I don’t know if I’ve ever I can’t even think of I’ve ever seen a
Maggie:
Black. I’ve been saving
Rich:
House.
Maggie:
Yeah,
Rich:
They’re black houses.
Maggie:
It’s not it’s just on the Upward Trend like you don’t see a lot of back black houses because it’s black siding is actually a pretty tricky product to obtain because when black materials get really hot in the sun they like vinyl specifically like expand and like warps a little bit. So you have to use a our siding is actually like a wood composite material. That’s like Or you can get like a cement board which is like extremely expensive. So yeah,
Rich:
And that’s probably why the most houses are light color.
Maggie:
Yes. That is why most houses like yes.
Rich:
Wow. Okay.
Maggie:
Yes. That’s that’s really what it is. Like any like any vinyl siding product.
Rich:
Yeah.
Maggie:
Most of them are lighter colors because they do better in like different temperatures in class.
Rich:
Yeah, that makes a lot of sense.
Maggie:
So
Rich:
The more you know,
Maggie:
The more you know, so it will complement our garage really well because we have a white garage with black doors. We’re gonna have a black house with some like white accents on our house and I think our neighbors will be really happy because we’re no longer gonna be like
Rich:
Under construction.
Maggie:
We’re no longer gonna be the neighborhood. I saw at least that’s how I see it, you know and Yeah, I’ll just be like really excited and one thing that I was like really excited about. something that Brandon said to me recently or to somebody actually overheard him saying it to somebody else and it like it like made me really happy is he’s like because I actually told him I’m like I am not signing off on any more Construction Products. Just so you know, like
Rich:
Yeah,
Maggie:
I’m done like no more construction. No more additions nothing like if you want to do another project, please take it off of our property and do it someplace else like I’m done. Yeah. So he like well, it’s been nine years. So I’m like I’m just don’t want to be living in construction anymore. I just want to move on with my life and enjoy my home and like set up lights in my backyard, you know, and just you know, hang on the patio
Rich:
So
Maggie:
Which yeah, we have a really like we have a great space and we’re really lucky that we’ve been able to do the work. But like when you do the work yourself for the last nine years and you live in sawdust and construction dust, it’s it starts to like hurt your mental health and your relationship.
Rich:
There’s also gonna be great.
Maggie:
Yeah.
Rich:
So I mean, I have a bunch.
Maggie:
Well Brandon what I ever heard Brandon saying to somebody else’s once we are finished with the addition, we’re gonna be closing the chapter on our home building portion of our lives and we’re going to be starting the chapter of our family building part of our Lives, which I’m really excited about
Rich:
Fun.
Maggie:
Yeah.
Rich:
Yeah, super cool. Well, well, I’m happy you got some time to do all that and
Maggie:
Yeah, me too.
Rich:
I mean even with all the stuff you do. I think you still had a more restful some rest in there versus what I did that’s good.
Maggie:
Yeah, you
Rich:
Always a couple weeks. We were still dropping episodes when you took your weekend.
Maggie:
Yes my way vacation away. Yeah,
Rich:
But
Maggie:
Yeah
Rich:
Trying to reclaim some of your claim some of your summer before I was out.
Maggie:
Seriously,
Rich:
It’s your favorite.
Maggie:
Yeah
Rich:
Season. Cool
Maggie:
For sure.
Rich:
That’s good to hear.
Maggie:
So what’s next on the Pod? What’s what’s our future look like?
Rich:
Well, yeah just a quick couple notes here. First of all, I just want to thank you guys for being with us. We did 20 episodes 20 weeks of podcasting 20 weeks. How many months is that? That’s a lot of months.
Maggie:
Yeah. All right. That’s a few. Yeah, that’s 20 weeks is like what three or four months we didn’t we start when was the coffee conference
Rich:
Three divided by?
Maggie:
Wasn’t that an April
Rich:
That’s like five months, isn’t it?
Maggie:
Yeah.
Rich:
Yeah wasn’t April
Maggie:
So
Rich:
So dang it and we did one week more or less. Yeah, so thank you for being here with us. We Learned a lot in that period I think we had a good time lots of surprises and we’re not gonna get into all that right now because we’re actually gonna get into it next week. Next time we talk we’re gonna do we’re gonna just basically chat 20 insights from 20 weeks of podcasting. Yeah, and
Maggie:
And what to expect
Rich:
A little vision for the next 20 maybe 10 maybe five 10. We’ll go 10 episode plan. Not just we’re gonna drop the next 10 topics because I don’t know there but we do have some already out there. Yeah, if if you could if you would if you’re a regular listener or a new listener, and you know what we’re about. or you want us to be about something else drop us a little line and we can incorporate some ideas maybe because We’ve got ideas and so do you so maybe we can meet in the middle?
Maggie:
Yeah.
Rich:
But yeah, I’m excited to talk about that. It’s it’s been it’s been intriguing to see the kinds of listenership. We have like the diversity in our audience, you know, we just assumed I think that would be like business owners talking to entrepreneurial creative types, and I I think we are like I think a lot of you are in those Realms, but there’s been just some some surprising resonance with people in other Industries or fields that I wouldn’t have. necessarily expected, you know and some of those people have been like the most engaged or engaging with us
Maggie:
Right
Rich:
As far as feedback and and like conversation and that’s cool. And that’s I think another thing again we’ll get into this but another thing is like we Think that you know where it’s always gonna be us kind of talking with each other and talking amongst ourselves. But at the same time like I think the success of a podcast comes from like a true community. That is sort of investing in invested in. that surrounds the that pod and so that’s something else. We’re looking forward to to contributing toward in the future. I think.
Maggie:
Yes, so
Rich:
More on that next time.
Maggie:
Yeah.
Rich:
Thanks for hanging in.
Maggie:
Yeah,
Rich:
Really appreciate you guys listening and thanks for checking back in with us. And
Maggie:
The best way to reach us is our email. House Coffee podcast at gmail.com Send us a lines. Send us feedbacks. Send us a suggestion. We truly we’d love to hear from you.
Rich:
Yeah, so maybe we’ll maybe a little outro so we don’t have to say that every time I
Maggie:
Know maybe
Rich:
You are trying out my plan. Yeah, it’s no problem. I’m just just cool. Appreciate you. Thanks for hanging in and we’ll catch you next week.
Maggie:
Peace. Later.