From childhood it's always been a dream to build our own home. More specifically a timber frame house. Call us dreamers, but we never gave up the hope. A couple years ago we decided to purchase rural land and, among other things, begin learning to make our own lumber and … [Read more...]

When you begin the process of building your own house, many seemingly small decisions can make an enormous difference in the final product which is precisely how we felt during our ICF construction. As we journeyed further into our debt-free homebuild, we decided to build the … [Read more...]

We’ve spent weeks getting our garage foundation as perfect as possible, right down to the concrete footings. This process has taught us so much about building your own home, and in this article we want to explain what we did to set our entire homebuilding project up for … [Read more...]

If you a master at DIY projects who can’t bear to stop working because the conditions aren’t right, you’re going to spend some serious time thinking about proper lighting in your workspace. Working outdoors or even in a garage quickly gets complicated if you can’t see what you’re … [Read more...]

Designing and building your own home is no easy task. When it came to creating our timber frame house plans, we knew that we were going to pour our bodies and hearts into this project for many years, so we wanted to make sure that we started it precisely right. The Home … [Read more...]