Imagine a house’s early days as a home: A young family builds a picket fence and plants flowers in its yard, children climb the magnolia tree and play the piano in the living room, and there is music inside the house for many happy years. But what will happen when its windows grow dark, the paint starts to crumble, and its boards creak in the winter wind? The Lantern House dreams of a family who will love it again… and one day, a new story will emerge from within its walls.

Erin Napier’s lyrical prose and Adam Trest’s vibrant paintings deeply evoke the soul of a house cherishing the seasons of life and discovering the joy of rebirth.

Make Something Good Today offers a behind-the-scenes glimpse into the struggles and triumphs of a couple that America has come to know and love for their easy humor, adoring relationship, and ability to utterly transform a place into something beautiful and personal. This is the story of how Erin and Ben took a small, tight-knit town into their own hands (literally) and used ingenuity, community, and authen- ticity to rebuild a once-thriving American Main Street. And how, by combining Ben’s carpentry skills with Erin’s design eye, Home Town is proving that small-town living can feel as big as you make it.