When Kevin Brost and his partner, Ian Hamilton, finished the chore of renovating their 1940s weekend cottage in Door County, Wisconsin, they turned to their potting shed as the next project. After scouring shops around the state, they accumulated a collection of vintage and antique garden tools, objects that embody, as Brost says, “their honest beauty.”

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DESIGN BY KEVIN BROST

PHOTOGRAPHY BY ANNIE PARISH

WRITTEN BY DAVID MASELLO

This story appeared in the Spring 2025 issue of MILIEU.