“Look, this isn’t a popularity contest but if it was, Good Bones might win. When I consulted my own Instagram followers about their favourite accounts for accessible decorating, Leanne’s name came up over and over. Follow her to see the hugely satisfying progress of her Victorian townhouse renovation and gather useful advice from her trials and tribulations in decorating and DIY.”
— House & Garden, April 2023
— The English Home, March 2024
“You’d never know looking at Leanne Kilroy’s bedroom and bath now, but at one point during her remodel, there were gaps in the shower floor tile, a permanent marker stain on the dresser’s marble countertop, and an irremediable leak coming from the tub spout…Both the bedroom and bathroom layouts were designed to have circular circulation…Not only does Kilroy find that dead ends often lead to gloomy corners, but the openness makes her life as a mom of three easier. “I’m always lugging around armfuls of things that need tidying or cleaning, and I’m constantly forgetting things here and there. Having shortcuts is a small but constant joy,” she says.”
— Domino Magazine, June 2023
“the attention to detail is evident…”
— Wall Street Journal, June 2022
“an ambitious and glossy renovation of a Victorian terrace in North London…”
— Financial Times, February 2023
“Leanne Kilroy knows a good thing when she sees it…Clearly, Leanne has vision. As the founder of Good Bones…she has an eye for spotting hidden treasures (a talent she shares with her dad, who owned ” the legendary but now-closed antiques shop on Beacon Hill in Boston, called Danish Country”). And as a designer, she loves nothing more than to remodel a space with potential (good bones, if you will).
Just take a look at her kitchen. When the couple purchased the home, “it was a boarding house, with a second kitchen upstairs and lots of chopped-up spaces, and it wasn’t in the best condition. The main kitchen was, quite literally, disgusting,” she tells us. Undaunted, Leanne sketched out plans for an extension involving Shaker cabinets and lots of skylights and windows (“the best way to describe what we were going for is a “Victorian orangerie”)—and trusted in her vision.
— Remodelista, June 2022
“Leanne Kilroy of the much loved instagram account Good Bones has incorporated antiques into her sunroom, the character of the table and bench providing a direct - and quite wonderful - contrast to the lightness of the space.
‘I grew up in a house full of antiques - my dad had an antiques shop for 40 years - so they feel like home to me,' Leanne says. 'Antiques have many stories to tell, often being much better made than today’s mass produced furniture. Antiques are my favorite way to provide a space with not only function and beauty but personality and soul as well.’”
— Livingetc, September 2022
“Leanne Kilroy shares her journey transforming a dilapidated terraced house…into a sublime family home.”
— Homes & Antiques, April 2022