Trespassers

A behind-the-curtains peek at the most gorgeous (and open-to-the-public) house tours in the nation.

If you stay up looking at real estate until you’re bleary eyed…
If you don’t remember the plots of your dreams, but you remember the backdrops…
If you beeline to estate sales at actual estates, just to see inside…
If you plan trips around house tours, booking your tickets before your flights…
If you leave only footprints, and take only design ideas…

You’re a Trespasser.

Trespassers: A Design Raid on the Most Exquisite House Tours in America slips past the velvet rope to go behind the curtains of 16 iconic homes that were once closed to the public. Included are all manner of architectural and design styles, including George Washington’s Mount Vernon, Georgia O’Keeffe’s Home and Studio, and Phillip Johnson’s Glass House. Along your tour through these pages, insights from expert curators and today’s leading designers—Charlotte Moss, Jamie Drake, and Ariel Okin among them—provide lesser known intel and decor takeaways that feel like design gospel. Each chapter also indulges in guilty pleasure “if these walls could talk” moments and the sorts of living advice we can all use, such as cocktail recipes or shopping ideas to recreate lives so thoroughly and stylishly lived.

Kathryn O’Shea-Evans is a Colorado-based journalist with a long-standing habit of walking through other people’s houses and asking a lot of questions. She is the author of Horse Country, with a foreword by India Hicks; Merry & Chic: Your Most Dazzling Christmas Ever, and Alpine Style (all published by Gibbs Smith). Her work has appeared in The Wall Street Journal, The New York Times, The Washington Post, and Architectural Digest. She has delightedly “trespassed”—with tickets—to dozens of storied houses across the globe, everywhere from Château de Chambord in Chambord, France, to the shotgun cabin in Tupelo, Mississippi, where Elvis Presley was born.

11 in H | 8.5 in W | 0.06 lb Wt

ISBN: 9781423669838

On Sale Date: Apr 6, 2027

Trespassers

More from Kathryn O’Shea Evans