Meet Jessica

Welcome to Four Generations One Roof LLC – Updated January 2021

Email to Collaborate : Jessica (at) Four Generations One Roof (dot) com

I am from a small town in Massachusetts and love sharing my unique multigenerational living arrangement, which started in 2008. I am a regular busy mom, who helps others bring affordable style to their home and teaches the art of layering a room. I have always had a passion for making my home comfortable, stylish and always done on a budget.

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Prior to starting my blog in 2011, I had no experience with social media and didn’t even have a Facebook account. I am a self taught mom blogger who stumbled upon blogging while searching for Star Wars party ideas for her son’s 5th birthday party in 2011.

How It All Started

In 2008 my family moved into my childhood home, owned by my parents. The original plan was to stay for a short time while we looked for a new home but we never left. Within a couple years, my grandparents (my dads parents) also moved in.

Me with my parents, grandparents, my son and step-daughter’s.

In 2011, Four Generations One Roof was born by accident which quickly became a popular spot for family, friends and new readers to visit on a daily basis. My dad, my grandfather and I started renovating our home together and the blog became a popular hub for DIY interior design projects, DIY home renovations, room makeovers on a budget, family recipes and how to successfully live in a Multi-Gen Home while maintaining privacy, style and your sanity.

A closet and Office space | Cloffice | Organized office in a closet

In 2018, a lot changed under the roof of Four Generations One Roof. My grandmother passed away on the eve of Thanksgiving, 2017 and my grandfather became a permanent resident at a local Nursing Home near my home in late 2017. My grandfather had severe Dementia which left us unable to care for him at home.

In February 2018, my parents sold my childhood home and my ex-husband and I along with my parents purchased a new house 1/2 mile down the street with more land, one kitchen and a home conducive to now three generations under one roof.

Shortly after purchasing the new home, my grandfather passed away and my marriage ended. See Surviving separation , divorce and the death of my grandfather .

Updated Summer 2020: 3.5 Generations and marriage proposal

Updated January 2021: Answers to, “where have you been Jess and is everything ok – adjusting after divorce & 2nd job” and “Jess do you still like blogging?”

Jessica and her family have been featured (see press features) in a variety of national publications, radio, print and online as well as magazine features. Jessica facilitates and works with a variety of sponsors as well as contractual relationships for brand ambassadorship. Jessica is currently a blogger for HomeGoods, a Better Homes and Gardens StyleMaker since 2013 as well as a freelance prop stylist for local and national brands.

Some of the brands that Jessica has worked with and/or currently works with are Home Depot, 3M, Shaw Flooring, Sherwin-Williams, Joss and Main, MasterBrand, HomeGoods, Wayfair, Better Homes and Gardens, Tylenol, Birch Lane, Proctor & Gamble, HomeRight, PineConeHill, Dash & Albert, Minted, Cree, Country-Time Lemonade, Flooring Decor, Kohler, Quaker, Ellios, Shaws supermarket, Whole Foods, Hood, Oreo, Old Elpaso, Folgers, New England Coffee, Jasco, Sears, Lightstream Banking, New Hampshire Travel and Tourism, Hinkley Lighting as well as a variety of smaller scale brands. See a list of full past and present sponsors here.

Some of the images on this page are spaces Jessica designed for HomeGoods at their studio in Massachusetts. Images are compliments of HomeGoods. Email Jessica (at) Four Generations One Roof (dot) com for all collaboration inquires.

Photo courtesy of The Boston Globe 2015