We flipped our first home by accident.

As newlyweds, we bought our first house in our dream neighborhood. The stained carpet smelled like cat urine and the window treatments were garbage bags posing as curtains. Most of the windows didn’t open at all and several doors didn’t close. There were holes in the squirrel infested walls and the front porch was falling off. But it was the only house in the neighborhood we could afford. So we fixed it up till it was our dream home, remodeling the kitchen and bath, adding new floors, doors and lots of paint. We settled in to live there forever.

But then Jordan got laid off, and we were forced to sell.

The sadness of selling what we thought was our forever home began to dissipate as we realized we could make a living doing what we loved–fixing up homes. So we did it again. And again, and again, and again…

And thus Restoration Homes was born.

We love preserving a home’s character or creatively adding character where none exists, while also including practical updates for modern living. We thrive on taking a space that doesn’t make any sense and bringing cohesion.

We love restoring homes because at its core it’s about redemption. About repairing something previously unusable. Rebuilding the ruins. It mirrors the restoration available to each of us, whether relationally, emotionally, or spiritually. We believe nothing is ever too far gone for redemption–no relationship or person or situation. Not even a house inhabited by squirrels that smells like cat urine with holes in the walls.

 

“They’ll rebuild the old ruins,

raise a new city out of the wreckage.

They’ll start over on the ruined cities,

take the rubble left behind and make it new.”

Isaiah 61:4