The Forge House

09/13/2026

A tiny dose of happiness for your feed today. Send this to someone you want to make smile. 🤍

09/11/2026

We get asked all the time how we were able to take on a project like this at 30, and the truth is it started long before we bought this house.

A lot of intentional decisions in our twenties, no debt going into it, equity from our first house, and then years of putting everything we could back into this place.

Stick around, because I think you’re going to like it here.

09/09/2026

We went bold with this bathroom. We worked with Fireclay Tile using Garnet, Hunter Green and Limewash color palette to create a moody, traditional look that still feels right for our 1830s cottage. The rug-inspired floor and trim details completely brought the design together. Let us know in the comments. Do you love it as much as we do?

09/08/2026

I can never pass up the discounted bananas at the grocery store… so banana bread it is.

I always double the recipe because if I’m making one loaf, I might as well make two!

Banana Bread | makes 2 loaves

6 ripe bananas
1 cup melted butter
1 cups packed brown sugar
4 eggs
⅔ cup plain or Greek yogurt
2 tsp vanilla
3 cups all-purpose flour
2 tsp baking soda
1 tsp salt
1 cup chocolate chips, optional

Mix the wet ingredients, then fold in the dry ingredients just until combined. Divide between two greased 9×5 loaf pans.

Bake at 350°F for 50–60 minutes, or until a toothpick comes out with a few moist crumbs.

One for now, one for later!

09/06/2026

We gutted the original bathroom in the Forge Cottage almost a year ago and have been slowly putting it back together ever since. This week I’m finally showing you how the tile turned out, and I really think you’re going to love it.

For now, here’s the inspiration behind the space.

Can you see the vision we were going for and do you think we pulled it off?

09/03/2026

The #1 question we’ve been getting lately: How did we accidentally buy this abandoned house at auction?

And one thing I want to clear up. We DID intend to bid on this house. 😂 We didn’t accidentally buy the wrong house… the accidental part was how that final bid happened.

Five years later, that decision changed our lives in ways we never expected.

What burning questions do you have for us? Leave them in the comments!

09/01/2026

We are building a barn - episode 1

We've been keeping a secret. 🤫 We're building a barn at the Forge Cottage! It started with creating a flat spot on the hillside, pouring the foundation and getting the concrete walls up.

We’ll be sharing the entire build from the ground up over the next few weeks. Follow along to see how ours turned out!

08/31/2026

08/30/2026

Let's make basil salt.

I used a mix of green + purple basil with a 2:1 ratio of salt to basil. Blend together, spread it out on a baking sheet, and bake at 250°F for about 30 minutes.

Once it cools, it’ll be crunchy. Break it up, blend it again, and store it in a mason jar.

It’s shelf stable for up to 6 months, and I’ve been keeping mine by the stove and adding it to just about everything.

08/28/2026

We saved the slate we removed from the cottage knowing we wanted to find a way to reuse it and it ended up becoming the siding on the back of the new addition.

Slate isn’t something you see used as siding very often, but with how expensive this material is, we couldn’t let it go to waste. And I think we really like how it turned out.

Did we make the right call using it?