Just because most of our gardens are asleep in winter doesn’t mean we don’t love a good garden-centric gift in our Christmas stockings, right? In fact, these are the types of pint-sized…
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We all know a backyard farmer or two in our lives. They’re the ones who arrange for chicken sitters the way other people arrange for dog sitters. They avoid taking vacations in…
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My husband and I began our home-building journey in June 2019 when we bought a piece of property in Bend, Oregon. If you’d read the announcement of us becoming landowners, you probably…
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It feels like a long while since we closed on our property, and the question has come up on whether we’ve made any progress this summer. Despite it being quiet on the…
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Before we lucked out on finding our land, my husband Will and I went back and forth endlessly between building or renovating a house. For him, there’s a bit of nostalgia to…
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In other big news (the first being baby number two, which you can read more about here if you missed our announcement), we just closed on our first piece of property! [Insert…
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I’ve been intrigued with alternative building methods ever since seeing the first container home featured in Dwell magazine. Combine that with seven years of living near the Port of Los Angeles, where…
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I’m obsessed with home renovation and home buying shows on HGTV. But every episode always has a happy ending, and there have been plenty of times when I’ve wondered how the people…
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Spring has sprung, although it doesn’t really feel like it here when the forecast is calling for more snow this week. But there’s something about the official start of spring that makes…
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Two new things happened in my house after I moved from a perennially mild climate to a cold and snowy climate: boot trays and overwintered houseplants. Lots of overwintered houseplants. In fact, they’re…
