Finishing the wall on the lower level. Starting the painting process. New chairs around the gathering space in the front year.

Continuing the journey of renovating the family home into a retreat venue. This time debating DIY vs. Professional plumbing, landscaping, and drywall

Follow the renovation of our mountain home as we create a warm, creativity-based retreat space for women seeking rest, reflection, and renewal.

“It feels really good working this physically hard again, doesn’t it?” Mark asked me as we turned onto the pavement leaving Chattaroy after a day working on our Mountain Space home. Yes, it does feel good renovating our family homestead into a retreat venue. Not that we haven’t worked hard in the last 30 years—we have. But we haven’t engaged in these kinds of challenges since we first built the home, and it feels GREAT! When we selected the original carpet for the home we bui

I pulled up the winding driveway, got out of the car and breathed in the silence of the mountain air and then……exhaled. I was just supposed to load up the car with boxes and head into town where we live, but I find myself compelled to stay, to rest, to reflect. That is what this home and land encourages, so it feels only natural to begin this post from this intuitive response to stop and write. After building the home by hand, raising our sons for two decades, then the last