We’re a professional Design Architect + Build Engineer (yes, a wife + husband team…haven’t killed each other yet even while working together every day with two completely different ways of doing things!😂)…
…who can literally do it all on homes (from strategic start to finish, interior to exterior)…
…and we’re here to help YOU do the same! 😉
With 50+ years combined residential design & build experience, we’re unlike any other team we’ve come across (in real life or in media)!
We didn’t always offer our help to others but this changed several years ago. Why?👇
Frankly, we were tired of seeing people like you taken advantage of. Being told to do ABC design because it’s the hottest look, or being told to do XYZ build because that’s all the builder tells you is possible.
We aren’t about “how design-y something looks” or “how to build x on a budget” (although we certainly can do both in our sleep at this point 😉 ). We’re a
rare hybrid of smart function + thoughtful design
that doesn’t exist anywhere else out there. We’re upleveling the game for this new decade! No one else is doing what we’re doing:
- Showing you the step-by-step inside looks at how to get there, with detailed explanations and insights!
- Telling you the interior design “insider secrets” no one wants to tell you because then they can’t charge you arms and legs!😅
- Giving you options for both Doing-It-Yourself with our guides vs. Us-Doing-It-For-You with our personalized consults & project work on your spaces!
No one looks at things the way we do, showing you all our work and processes on our site…and then offers you our level of expert immediate solutions…
So that’s why we’re here: to offer help you literally can’t get anywhere else! 🤗
We genuinely love to help make your life better! It energizes our souls to help you lovely readers! To know we’re improving the world one life at a time!
Personally, we’ve enjoyed making every home of ours better than the last one, and actually CREATING TIME + ENERGY for ourselves and what matters most to us.
You can have the same! (And we’re here to help you get it ASAP!)
Wondering where to start? We highly recommend starting with THIS!
We didn’t always offer our help to others. We started out working for big companies and being paid well for our expertise in building their brands and work.
Fast-forward several years and (because I enjoy + get a big kick out of writing) we started this site simply as a way to share the story of our new home renovation in California at the time…
…and it turned into a place where millions of people like YOU are finding new inspiration and help with your biggest space problems + solutions!
- Read our posts by room!👈
- Download our design guides!👈
- Get your first Design Mini-Guide here for FREE!👈
From the outside, people couldn’t understand how Matt and I were able to accomplish so much on our house + have fun and travel with limited time. It’s all because of what most people can’t see:
the visible + invisible strategic designs and home processes
we created!
The good news is
we can 100% help you do the same!
Your home should support the kind of life YOU want to live! (100% you means not the same as everyone else.)
We help you accomplish that + create a space you love!
➜ Whether that’s design choices that are gorgeous AND make cleaning go faster, or the exact measurements of your drawers, EVERY decision you make matters!
➜ Get our guides for making life better!
➜ Score help from us on thinking strategically about the why & the how!
Here’s a lil’ more about us…
Jessica (“The Thinker”):
If you ask Jess why she does this, she’ll say, “To help people THINK!”
Incredibly passionate and energetic about the things that matter, one of Jess’ favorite things to do is think! A strategist to the core, Jess thinks about the who, the what, the where, the when, the how, and the why. Her creativity and strategic skills have been utilized over the past 20+ years by some of the biggest-name brands in the world.
➥ If you and Jess could hang out, you’d probably go sip your favorite drinks together and her eyes would light up as she’d ask you questions like,
- “What kind of person do you want to be?”
- “If there were zero barriers, what would you do with your free time?”
- “Where are you most depleted? When are you most energized?”
(Try one of Jess’ favorite Design Guides to start! One, two, three! It’s like going out for that drink together and getting her brain on your home!)
➥ For fun, Jess enjoys dark chocolate (seriously, we can call it a hobby), gardening, cuddling her kids, long walks, and occasionally writing in the third person (A.K.A. entertaining herself!🤗aaand…jazz hands)!
Get your home together today so you can live well now! (Don’t wait for retirement, please.😆)
Matt (“The Doer”):
If you ask Matt why he does this, he’ll say, “To help people DO!”
Not only is Matt’s personality cool, calm & collected, but he genuinely enjoys helping others. He likes to get right on in there, get hands-on, and do it!
After building his first home as a teenager, Matt received his Electrical Engineering degree and went on to become a certified PMP (which officially stands for Project Management Professional, but it just makes Jess want to sing the 50 Cent song). In the past 20+ years, Matt’s roles have led up to his becoming a highly sought-after Senior Project Manager working for some of the biggest-name companies ever!
When Jess brings big, passionate ideas to the table, Matt is the one who first thinks through the logic of it. An engineer at heart, he’s always looking for ways he can make something function better.
➥ If you and Matt could hang out, you’d find yourself doing something more active and hands-on, like playing a sport together (or helping him move furniture for Jess…mwahaha!), and afterwards you’d be encouraged to relax while he cooks up a gourmet treat for you.
➥ For fun, Matt enjoys building furniture, competing against himself in his latest running times, disc golf, cooking, being with his family, and making up the best puns ever.
Together, we make a solid married team that has no shortage of home + adventure plans and no shortage of ability to make them happen.
The shortages we do find are in time (that 24-hr day really gets ya) and energy (we have two young and energetic kids)!
➥ We renovated our famous California fixer upper while working in a lot of adventure with all the free time we’ve created!
- See how we created all that free time by browsing our latest house projects!
- We’ve poured our hearts + expertise into THESE to help you! (Yes, you!) For each one you use, we feel both thankfulness and an almost-giddy excitement that your life at home will be transformed (with us getting to be part of it)!
- Or maybe you’re into how we suddenly quit our high-paying jobs and our first house so that we could move to New Zealand! (Talk about adventure!)
➥ UPDATE: We recently sold our beautiful, function-filled house to do this! Double update: and then we did THIS! (currently going!)
If you’ve made it this far, see which one of us likes tea + who likes coffee! 😉
