Emily Manning

When designing a custom home, the first instinct for many people is to engage a designer or architect and begin drawing plans straight away. It feels exciting. The ideas start flowing, the layouts look beautiful, and the vision of your future home begins to take shape. But there’s one major problem with this approach. Without […]

A well-designed custom home doesn’t start with finishes, floor plans, or Pinterest boards. It starts much earlier than that. It starts with the right questions. Not the kind that ask what something should look like, but the kind that help you understand how you actually live day to day. The routines you repeat. The spaces […]

The new year has a way of highlighting the small frustrations within your home that have been easy to push aside. Once the holidays are over, everyday life and routines resume. Mornings feel chaotic again in the race out the door, and the layout, storage, and lack of space suddenly feel obvious. It is often […]

If you’d told us a few years ago that we’d be back in Forster running our own building company with three little kids in tow, we probably wouldn’t have believed you. What was once a distant dream is now our reality. Were we crazy for launching a business in a new town with a 2-year-old […]