Join us on our journey

In early summer of 2021, we purchased our new home… right next door!

We had lived beside it for the preceding four years (our old house had not been constructed when the above image was taken). All the time we were next door, the house had sat dark and vacant. We’d never ventured through the doorway. It was the mystery of the neighborhood.

For a brief moment during the 2020 lockdown, we toyed with the idea of moving to an area that would afford a little more land. We quickly talked ourselves out of leaving a neighborhood we had grown to love—a private court in the heart of Carolyn Park in Arabi, Louisiana. We loved our neighbors, several of them existing friends who moved nearby.

Fast forward to the spring of this year: the owner of the neighboring house, daughter of its builder, called us one evening and suggested we buy her mother’s house. The home was built as a gift from her father to her mother and thus is always referred to as her ‘mother’s house’. We walked through the following weekend. If recollection serves, we were sold when we walked in to the foyer for the first time.

We are Nate and Sven (me, on right). Both born and raised in Maine, in 2015 we decided to make a permanent relocation to New Orleans. We’d owned a house with my mother in the Faubourg Marigny since 2013. We first lit in the Bywater neighborhood and in 2017 moved to the Court.

Join us on our journey as we bring this beautiful grande dame back to life.