The Fresh Roots Living Story
Rediscovering the Simple Art of Living Well
For more than twenty-eight years, I’ve helped people find their perfect home: the right neighborhood, the right light, the right feel. I’ve guided them through remodeling projects, design transformations, and the excitement of new beginnings. But along the way, I began to notice something deeper. So many people had the home they’d dreamed of, yet they weren’t really living in it.
We’ve entered a time when life is full of convenience, commitments, and constant motion. Takeout dinners replace the family table. Gardening feels like a luxury. Rest becomes a reward we have to earn. Somewhere in all that busyness, we’ve lost touch with the most nurturing parts of daily life: the ones that feed us, body and soul.
Fresh Roots Living was born to change that.
Living Your Space
The heart of Fresh Roots Living is about bringing living back home. It’s about finding peace in the kitchen as you cook with your family. It’s about planting something (herbs on a windowsill, a row of tomatoes, a few flowers in a pot) and feeling the reward of growth. It’s about design that supports daily life, not just decorates it. And it’s about rediscovering joy in simple rhythms that make you feel grounded again.
We believe that true homemaking isn’t a lost art. It’s the antidote to overwhelm.
Why It Matters
When we reconnect with home through cooking, gardening, creating, and caring, everything shifts. We feel better. We sleep better. We live better. Home becomes not just where we are, but how we are.
The goal isn’t perfection. It’s presence. A slower pace. A more intentional way of being that allows beauty to unfold naturally through a home-cooked meal, a freshly made bed, or a garden thriving just outside your door.
A Simpler Way Forward
Fresh Roots Living is a call to return (not backward, but inward).
To plant roots that nourish.
To live in the spaces we’ve worked so hard to create.
To design not just homes, but lives that feel whole.
Because the truth is simple: when we care for the place we live, it cares for us in return.
Welcome to Fresh Roots Living: a community dedicated to finding peace, purpose, and possibility in the everyday.
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Cari Ann Carter is the best-selling author of Are Your Roots Right? Rightsize Your Space. Reclaim Your Life. and a multi-faceted entrepreneur with a passion for intentional living, design, and home.
She leads the Cari Ann Carter Group, bringing over 28 years of experience in real estate, design, build, and renovation, and is the creative voice behind DIY Designer Homestead.
Through Fresh Roots Living, she shares practical ideas for cooking, gardening, entertaining, and creating a home that supports your next chapter.