We were full-time working parents who built their dream home on 20 acres with ZERO prior experience. Here's how we made it work.

Why I stopped chasing a bigger house and chose a 2,201 sq ft home instead. A perspective on modest living, peace, and building intentionally

This was once our dream too. It's not so out of reach for you! The waiting can feel heavy, but don't compare your beginning to someone else's end.

Instead of answering the same things one-by-one, I wanted to put everything in one place — so here are my most-asked questions, answered honestly and in one spot.

What worked and didn't work when trying to lose the baby weight.

After sharing my weight loss on Instagram recently, my DMs were flooded with questions like: “How did you do it?” “I can’t seem to move the scale no matter what I do.” “How did you even get started?”

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

Funny, honest take on the rollercoaster of decision fatigue, delays, and compromises.

Answering the questions of where I get things in our home — affordable, quality, and charming is the name of the game.

What I do for a living

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