The Beginning

"I enjoy doing housework, ironing, washing, cooking, dishwashing. Whenever I get one of those questionnaires and they ask what is your profession, I always put down housewife. It's an admirable profession, why apologize for it. You aren't stupid because you're a housewife. When you're stirring the jam you can read Shakespeare." -Tasha Tudor

Here at Quaint and Keeping House, we’re all about embracing what Mrs. Tudor has proclaimed. For so many years ‘keeping house’ has been anathema in our culture. It was deemed as drudgery, it was unskilled labour that must be avoided at all costs, and it was something that the modern young woman ought not to aspire to at all. And while I admire and respect all those career-focused women, we ought to also raise the role of the housewife to a similar status. In the past, being a housewife was considered a real and important profession and at long last, an amazing group of young women (and men, house-husbands too!) are standing up and saying that it’s not just okay to stay at home, but it’s a position that is worthy of respect too!

If you’re still a nine-to-fiver, and love keeping house, we hope you find some inspiration here too. Being a housewife isn’t all or nothing and a lot of the projects and ideas can be done on weekends, or incorporated into your time at home. We know for a lot of ladies that it isn’t possible to stay-at-home full time, and that some ladies love their careers too (I know I sure did when I worked away from home.) and wish to find a happy balance between home and career. At Quaint and Keeping House you will find a little domestic bliss to soothe your busy day.

Young, savvy, and a bit old-fashioned, this blog will touch on all the topics that will nurture your domestic passions from going green, to how to make the classic chocolate chip cookie. We’ll show you the ins and outs of keeping house the old-fashioned way in the new millennia.