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....