All of you is welcome
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Three doors, three ways in. Begin with the signature builds, or wander through the small treasures at the end.
All of you is welcome
We are all born with a longing to return home: to a place where we belong without question, where we are loved without condition, where we can rest, completely held and safe.
Somewhere within us lives the memory of our first home, the womb. Not only our mother’s, but the Great Mother’s, from whose ovaries all life is born. Though we may have forgotten, something in us remembers. And so we begin to build.
Within every heart burns a hearth, a quiet flame reaching for the world. My work is to listen to that flame, to hear what is alive within you, and help give it a place to land and grow.
Through the language of earth, I shape spaces that breathe with the world around them: curving with the body, rooted in the soil, alive with the rhythms of nature. Slowly a dwelling emerges. Not simply a structure, but a living sanctuary, a mythic creature. A second skin and a guardian, an extension of the earth and an expression of your spirit, holding not only who you are, but who you are becoming.
Our true whol(m)e was never lost.
We are remembering where we came from.
Healing Earth Homes · Natural building
There is a difference between beauty and art. Beauty doesn’t try to be different. It opens itself to the world, evolves, and cares for everything around it.
To me, everything holds beauty: every branch, every stone. My work as a builder is to shape each one so the magnificence already within it can be seen more clearly. This is my hope for people, too.
True art is less about what I create, and more about what I see.
Meet the builder
I am a servant to the greater whole, a student of harmony, balance, and the living intelligence woven through all creation.
My devotion to living art has been shaped by years of wandering, learning, and listening: travels through Europe and India, the study of ecological architecture in college, and the wisdom of teachers like Ra the Cave Digger, SunRay Kelly, and Tibetan lamas who taught me to create art that heals and transforms all who step inside.
Since then, my work has appeared on A&E’s Living Smaller, on the series Living Big in a Tiny House, and in the book of the same name. I have been trusted to lead large projects, and I have written a book, The Journey Home, which explores how to lift the building industry out of patriarchy.
My life has become an exploration of what it means to live in partnership with nature. Everything I create carries a prayer for the well-being of life. True mastery is not found in the finished work, but in the presence, relationship, and discovery cultivated along the way.
A building is not a style. It is a living conversation between people, place, and spirit, and it is never truly finished. It keeps growing, taking part in the life around it. Construction, at its deepest, is an act of listening: a communication and communion with the forces of creation.
My work is an offering to this unfolding: beauty that belongs to the earth, honors the human spirit, and awakens the wild vitality within us.
Based in Asheville, North Carolina
Ecovillage design
Every structure I build is a bridge: between people, and between people and the earth. Fostering right relationship asks for two kinds of design, woven together.
Based in Asheville, North Carolina
The physical structures
Homes, gathering halls, paths and gardens laid out so the land itself draws people together. Natural materials, shared spaces and buildings that grow from the place they stand.
The invisible structures
Written agreements, contracts and community designs that shape how people live, decide and care for one another. Clear structures that make trust and harmony possible.
When I weave the two together, harmony returns to the land, and new civilizations can grow around the heart.Design a village with me
Featured projects
Five homes and gathering places where the vision came most fully alive. Tap any photo to step inside.
Shaped by hand
No two curves alike. Each one is cut, carved and fitted by hand.
Born of the land
Wood, stone, clay and light, gathered close and given form.
Homes on wheels
Sanctuaries on wheels: tiny houses, a school bus, a vintage camper and vans, each one carved, curved and lined in living wood, ready to follow you wherever the road leads.
Earth, timber & stone
Buildings that rise from the ground they stand on. Whole logs, cob, earthen plaster, stone and woven branches, shaped into halls and huts that feel grown rather than built.
Gardens, gates & outbuildings
Decks, gates, fences and outhouses that turn a yard into a place of gathering, wonder and everyday ritual.
One or two photos each
Furniture, stonework, carvings and small curiosities, each one a seed of the larger work.
Offerings
Two new ways to bring this work home. Both are on their way.
Through poems, a fable of a lost king, and a builder’s own wandering story, this book teaches how to raise a home from earth, straw, timber, and stone, weaving practical patterns of walls that breathe, fractals, circles, and the golden ratio together with the science of living systems, light, and the body, so that the house, the builder, and the land grow alive as one.
Clothing, stickers and keepsakes adorned with the sacred geometry of Tiny Temples, made to carry a little of the temple wherever you go.
Build with me
Three ways to begin. Each one starts with a conversation about how you want to live.
One of my proven tiny home designs at a set price, so you know your full cost from day one.
A one-of-a-kind temple designed around you, your land and the way you live.
Carved woodwork, natural plasters, off-grid power and other finishing touches.
Cornerstone
Tell me about the home you are dreaming of. Every question is welcome, and every temple begins with a conversation.
Thank you for walking this path with me. May you find shelter for your body, sanctuary for your spirit, and a place on this earth that remembers your name.
Honor thy temple.
