The Original Vision Maybe you remember that from the very beginning of building our house, I had a clear vision for the downstairs powder room. I wanted it to feel moody, dark and cozy, but also have...

I had been dreaming about this kitchen for a very long time. The planning actually started together with the design of the house itself. From the beginning my goal was to create a timeless kitchen that...

I am absolutely overflowing with happiness. Our kitchen is finally finished. In my previous post I wrote about how we were about to move in and would have to live with a temporary kitchen for a while....

From chickens to flowers Did you know that we used to have chickens? Real, egg laying chickens, for which we built a very fancy chicken coop. But winters are quite harsh where we live, and without heating...

I have always dreamed of having a pantry. Where I live, pantries are not common in modern townhouses. They are actually quite rare. Traditionally, pantries belonged to old farmhouses. They were dark,...

Walls do not have to stay flat to feel finished. Very often, what is missing is not color or furniture, but structure. Wall moulding and trim shape how a room feels long before decor comes into play. They...

Plain walls can feel safe… but also a little boring. Wallpaper is beautiful, but it can be expensive, hard to remove, and sometimes scary to commit to especially in kids’ rooms where tastes change fast....

The fun part starts Spring is finally starting to make its way here. The weather has still been rather cold, but honestly, that has worked in our favor. Cold days are perfect for staying indoors and...

Two Months Later and a Whole New House Two months have gone by and even though I have not managed to pull myself together and write a single post, there has actually been a lot of progress with the house....

The Weeks That Slipped By Over the past three weeks so much has happened that it’s hard to decide where to begin. With our family welcoming its fifth member, I haven’t been able to spend much time on-site...

During the past week and a half our construction site has been lively. Two hardworking builders have been moving through tasks at an impressive pace and the list of completed work is long, even if only...

Don’t miss the time-lapse video at the end — it shows the whole installation from start to finish. After two long but exciting days, our modular house was finally ready for the roof. This was the moment...

A Timely Start Building a house always feels like a race against time and weather anyways, but delays pushed us straight into November. The sun barely shows its face before 8 a.m. and disappears by 4...

By the time our neighbors came home from work, they were stunned — a whole house had appeared where there’d only been a concrete slab that morning. Day one of our modular home build was nothing short of...

When Everything Was Finally Coming Together It finally felt like everything was falling into place — the foundation was done, the apartment sold, and the house build planned for August. What could possibly...

Who would have thought that creating a lawn from scratch is its own kind of adventure. What started as a simple plan to spread out a pile of soil and sprinkle some grass seed turned into weeks of hauling,...

Selling a home is always emotional — even more so when it’s the only one you’ve ever owned. For us, it wasn’t just about moving out; it was about closing one chapter so we could begin building another.But...

This morning was a big one — two concrete trucks arrived, and in just about two hours, the entire slab was poured, compacted, and leveled. Once the first smoothing was done, the workers brought...

Today turned out to be more of a family day on site. While Mr. Right, my brother, and my dad were busy tying up loose ends before tomorrow’s big concrete pour, I kept the kids entertained with a picnic...

Morning Surprise: Frozen Water Pipe The third day of foundation work started with an unpleasant surprise. When Mr. Right arrived on site at 7 a.m., he found that our water pipe had frozen and burst overnight....

If yesterday was all about breaking ground, then today was about precision. While I personally spent most of the day battling a stomach bug and couldn’t be on site, Mr. Right kept me in the loop with plenty...

Building Timeline: Delays and Unexpected Wins About two weeks ago, we learned that the company responsible for the house module drawings wouldn’t finish them before midsummer! That would have meant that,...

This is our little 345 sqf studio apartment. When we got married, we moved into my husband’s apartment, which at that time was unfinished and looked more like a construction site. We were both students,...

Dividing Responsibilities: Design vs. Technical Decisions From the very beginning, we agreed that all construction, energy efficiency, structural decisions, and insulation choices would be Mr. Right’s...

The Moment We Finally Got the Permit I’ve been avoiding writing about this topic here, mostly because I didn’t want to reopen old wounds. But today I finally have a reason—because we officially have...

Buying a plot of land is the first major step when building your own home — and it can come with surprises. In this post, I’m sharing how we found (and cleaned up!) our future home site, including a broken...

Why We Gave Up House Hunting and Decided to Build Our Own Home Ever since our first child was born, Mr. Right and I had been sniffing around the housing market. We visited plenty of houses, but it was...

For a long time, pantries have been seen as something only countryside homes had — cool, dark rooms used for storing a year’s worth of food. In modern city apartments, there’s rarely space for such a thing....