Why buy a home when you can build a fairytale?

Hi, I'm Curt. My wife Ani, son Fitch, and I are your average, everyday nonconformists who have been running an experiment. We are trying to figure out if a family can use their own hands and some grit to handcraft a life that you don't need a vacation from. Or better yet, that you would vacation to. Have we done that? You be the judge.

Several years ago we left our South Florida handcrafting furniture business to pursue this new goal. We set out to build an inspiring experience in simple, eco-friendly living that would find a harmony between some of the old fashioned world that we'd found ourselves missing, and the handful of modern advancements that were actually beneficial. All while keeping it classy.

At Heirloom Hamlet, you will see us designing unique, functional cabins, installing solar, composting, planting. We're bread baking, pasta making, timber milling, woodworking, clay-forming and metal pounding. The goal is to evolve into a small world of self-reliance and harmony with nature. Ani and I are big believers in being mindful and respectful of our environment wherever reasonable. So we are incorporating both alternative and municipal utilities as they can fit into our homestead design and limited budget.

Through good design, our goal is to show just how "normal" small living can feel. We all have priorities. We personally were tired of feeling so self-absorbed that we had shut out the importance of being as respectful to the earth as we could be.

To be completely transparent, though, the creatives in us do value being inspirational, an encouragement to onlookers to possibly look at their own space and life a little bit differently.

We've personally found it to be so fulfilling to fight to distinguish real desires and needs from imagined ones, the ones we've been groomed to pursue. And then to work to make those a reality. We've found it energizing to at times witness our fellowmen and women pursuing a dream, and we too wanted to be a stimulating memory along our guests’ journey.

Visiting with us, we sure hope those we meet can appreciate some of our old-fashioned ways. And that as our paths cross, we won't be held to a business-first standard which we’ve worked hard to remove. Heirloom Hamlet has been purposefully designed to be a refreshing hideaway from the norm.