Way back in 2018 we started dreaming about how we could get a house on our land in the Hood Canal. We met with a builder in the area and he walked around our land, listened to our ideas and dreams, and he LOVED it all.

We got really excited, and then asked him what he thought the cost would be for a house like we were discussing, and when he told us, we realized we would have to sell our old house in OR, and STILL take our a construction loan to make it so we could afford to have a house built.

This idea DID NOT excite us.

So we started to dream and scheme.

What if we built our own house??

What if we found a house that was a kit and came with all the parts we needed to build it and had directions to guide us through??

Did that sort of thing exist?

Would that be a cheaper option??

Well, guess what? That option did exist, and it was a much more inexpensive option.

We could build our own house. Eventually sell our old house, and we would be 100% mortgage free.

Say what?????

Here are now in 2024, and our kit house is almost complete, and we’ve been able to hold onto our old house where we’ve stored all of our stuff in the basement while that house has been an Airbnb and a long term rental.

Now, though, it’s finally time to sell our old house and move into our mortgage free era!

It’s been a hard road of building our own house to get to this point, and now that it’s time to move all of our stuff out of storage we have another challenge ahead.

It’s a stressful and emotional time, but when we keep our eyes on the prize and remember why we started this whole adventure, it makes it a little easier when we realize that it will all be totally worth it.

Follow along as we start the moving process out of our house in Oregon so we can enter our mortgage free era.

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And now a little back story on us, in case you just found us on YouTube. We’re Sara and Ryan. We are your average suburban family, but 10 years ago, we purchased a raw piece of land in the Hood Canal in Washington. We’ve been developing this piece of property slowly, and this year we knew it was time to go all in. So we purchased a log cabin kit home and decided that 2020 would be the year we built a house on our property. We plan to build this cabin (as much as we can) on our own.

Unfortunately, some unforeseen events in 2020 that were completely out of our hands put a delay on our cabin kit being produced and delivered in the time frame we had originally planned. While we could have just waited it out and pushed back starting on the build of our home, we decided to shift gears and change our course for the time being. We purchased a 30 foot yurt, and will be setting it up as additional living space when we begin to build our cabin.

In the summer of 2021, we FINALLY moved to the Hood Canal so we could start the build of our future home. While we are building our home, we are living in a camper trailer and the yurt that we built in the summer of 2020. We hope to have our cabin kit home built by the end of 2023. Just my husband and I are building the house. We get help here and there from friends along the way and we do plan to get help on the roof but other than that we are doing it all on our own.

Follow along with us as we build our dream in the Hood Canal.

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