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A Home for Hosting

Building a house, and a family, one step at a time.

How can you create a home that’s more welcoming, more inviting, and more people will be blessed by entering? Well we’re not entirely sure, but here’s a sample of what we’re doing to try to create a Home for Hosting. On this site you’ll find how-to’s, stories, a build blog, and product and technique reviews on what we like, what we’d do differently, and what to avoid when building your own home.

(Oh yeah, we are still very much building this site and importing a ton of posts over from our previous home building blog which was pretty haphazard. BUT, we are already getting some pageviews despite not yet sharing it anywhere, so if you happen to stumble upon this site somehow, please check back later when we’ve got it all prim and proper!)

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No Soup for You! JK, come on in.

No Soup for You! JK, come on in.

The ALMOST finished kitchen in its unnatural state (i.e. no kids, no dishes, no mess). I'll probably mention it in another post, or maybe I already have, but we've been really impressed with the cabinet combos we went with this time. In the past we've
Mantels, Music & Memories

Mantels, Music & Memories

This great room is a great room. Music, Christmas, campfires and snuggles. Also, there is wiring run from the wall by the piano over to the office/desk area (where the amplifier sits) for microphones! We're looking forward to hosting some music nights and just having
Back-Front of the House

Back-Front of the House

Lots of confusion about which is the front side and which is the backside of our house. Mostly because we built it at an angle and put the designed “back” of the house closest to the road (which is really not close at all, about
Front-Back of the house

Front-Back of the house

Here's what we call the back and others call the front. Long deck with a porch swing and octagon, and some Polk Audio speakers pumping the tunage 🙂 On the left you can see a spruce tree. We had a company come and move some