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Moving in Midlife: The Messy Middle Between Leaving and Arriving
There is a season of life that nobody talks about. It's the phase after you've made the decision but before you've arrived. The phase where every day feels like you're moving forward and falling apart at the same time. That's where we are right now. Three weeks from moving day. The hole for our future…
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What to Do Before Building a Custom Home: 12 Important Steps Before You Break Ground
Affiliate Disclosure: This post may contain affiliate links. If you purchase through these links, we may earn a small commission at no additional cost to you. We only recommend products we use, own, or genuinely believe provide value. If you're wondering what to do before building a custom home, you're not alone. Most conversations about…
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Storage and Moving Decisions We’re Making Before Our Custom Home Build to Make Life Easier Later
Affiliate Disclosure: This post may contain affiliate links. If you purchase through these links, we may earn a small commission at no extra cost to you. We only share products we genuinely like, use, or would choose for our own build. Preparing to move while building a custom home creates a specific kind of chaos…
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Breaking Ground on Our Intentional Custom Home Build at Five Trails
After 18 Months of Dreaming, Designing, and Walking the Land, We Finally Begin Next week, we officially break ground on our intentional custom home build at Five Trails, and even writing those words feels surreal. For the past 18 months, this home has existed mostly as an idea we carried with us through conversations, sketches,…
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5 Forever Home Decisions We’re Making Now So We Don’t Regret Them Later
Affiliate Disclosure: This post may contain affiliate links. If you purchase through these links, we may earn a small commission at no extra cost to you. We only share products we genuinely like, use, or would choose for our own build. There’s something both exciting and slightly unhinged about building a custom home in your…
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5 New Build Mistakes We Won’t Be Making Again
There’s something oddly humbling about living in a house for nearly 20 years. You stop noticing the little annoyances at first. Then one day you’re tripping over charging cords, trying to wedge Costco snacks into a pantry built for exactly three cans of soup, and playing a real-life game of “door Tetris” in your bathroom….
OUR STORY
Five Trails Home began with a simple question: What should we do next?
With our three kids grown and beginning lives of their own, it was time to jump into our next act. A plan began to crystalize involving a move to Wisconsin and fed a need for wide open spaces. The search began.
Why We Chose to Build
Like many families, we started by looking for an existing home. We toured a few beautiful houses and a whole bunch of dilapidated farm properties. We were up for a huge challenge from the beginning and the realtors kept questioning the level of dilapidation we were actually willing to consider. But despite our vision for something more, we didn't see enough. None of these places were ours.
A spark ignited. Could we build? Where would we build? And what would a home look like if it were designed completely around the life we want to happen inside it?
For our family, the answer became Five Trails Home.
The name reflects the five paths that start and end on our five Wisconsin acres—our family moving through life together, each person growing in their own direction, but always returning and rooted in the same place. The trails carved into the land made us fall in love with every inch as we walked the property on Valentines Day 2025. We walked off, wrote an offer and Five Trails was ours.
The question became, “Now what?” Let's figure it out together!
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