The Blog

You don’t start with granite countertops and a perfect life—you start with corn dogs, exhaustion, and a house that looks nothing like your dream… and you decide to own it anyway. It all started with an evening motorcycle ride in August of 1997 in our hometown of Forest Grove, Oregon. We were 22 years young, married for just over 3 years, and hankering for a place of our own. We'd rented an apartment, which we quickly learned was not our cup of tea, and then found an old farmh