I had big visions for our house. Not “Pinterest-everything” big, but intentional big. I knew exactly how I wanted certain spaces to feel and how our budget walked hand in hand with it.

If I could go back and give my past self one thing during our custom home build, it wouldn’t be a bigger budget or a faster timeline. It would be this tool.

I get messages about building a home almost daily. Some version of: Where do I even start? Do I need a GC? How long does this actually take? What order does everything happen in? And every time, I think the same thing — there is no way  a DM can do this topic justice. So instead of half-answers and voice notes sent at midnight, I sat down and worked weewy weewy hawd  (iykyk) to put everything  into one simple, no-fluff Google Doc you can actually use. This isn’t something I’m

How to design your own floor plan.

With the start of a new month, I thought it would be fun to switch things up and share a little roundup of my favorite things from August.

Our goal was to spend no more than $500k in the house build. Luckily, that's exactly what it took! Here's 3 ways we saved when building our modern farmhouse. 1. We did all the construction cleaning ourselves. Truly I didn't know what I was getting into haha. While also being pregnant, this was something I didn't realize how much work went into it. This took up a lot of evenings and weekends to keep our build on track. This step is SO IMPORTANT as your individual contractors m