Katy B. Olson

I’m a journalist and editor with 10+ years of experience covering interior design, furniture, and the ways people aspire to live. In my current role at Cubby, my focus has shifted to how families actually live — writing about real homes, real messes, and real solutions, informed by both my reporting background and life with my husband and two toddlers (for six long months, both were under age two!).

I’m also a contributor to Architectural Digest, where I write home tours, with a particular fondness for English countryside aesthetics. Over the years, I've served in staff editor and director roles at Architectural Digest, Business of Home, and Sandow Design Group, among others, and I recently wrote The New York Times Wirecutter guide to dining tables. I’m especially proud of helping launch Architectural Digest’s first digital showhouse, a collaboration with the Black Interior Designers Network.

Fresh out of grad school, I worked in Milan for an English-language magazine and walked into my first Salone del Mobile — the famous furniture fair — where rows and rows of furniture hit me like Corduroy (** millennial storybook reference) scouring a department store at midnight. I realized I could make a career out of covering this industry. Today, I’m a passionate but skeptical design lover and consumer advocate who believes good design should be beautiful and functional, especially for families. I’m based between New York and rural Connecticut.