From a hillside in Carolina to a mountain in Montana
How It Began
1992, a little mill house in York County. A knock on the door three weeks before Thanksgiving, a swing made from a car seat, two belts and a broom handle, and a family that grew to five daughters. Three jobs that taught BIM before BIM, a kitchen-table drafting firm, Architectural Desktop, then Revit, 36 hours straight. And across the street, another little mill house: bought in foreclosure in 2010, reimagined in 2017 with shipping containers and a 747 wing for a roof, and taken back to the studs in 2024.
The Hardest Summer
June to October 2026 in York County, South Carolina. A trench cut into red clay, footings poured, shipping containers set into the hillside and sprayed with foam, an old house taken back to the studs and finished. Four months, sunrise to sundown, and the summer that made going rogue possible. After the snow melts, the workshop comes west.
The Road West
October 2026. A 33-hour drive that took 52, with new tires in Nashville on a thin budget. The last morning: Montana under a big sky, off the interstate, onto gravel, and up the mountain to a green building that was another man's dream for twenty-six years. Home.
Going Rog4UE
It starts in the model: a Revit and Twinmotion flyover of the land, the property lines, and the plan, summer and winter, down to the road. At the property stake the model dissolves into the real thing. From there to the studio: an iced-over road turned into next year's firewood, a silver mine, a winter's wood cut in thirty days, and a shipping container turned into the place this channel comes from. Everything you see is the same piece of land, at 7,000 feet in Montana.
Two Seasons
The same land in deep snow and in fall. Winter tests you and fall pays you back: a trail to a mining camp from about 1880, a silver mine, blue-hour dusk over the ridge, and a winter cold enough to freeze the camera.
Same Mountain
1880: the oldest mine on this land was dug by hand, and it paid. Then silver crashed, the miners came back, and the creek paid for how they did it. A ride down High Ore Creek past the ore bins, the mill and the old camp, then home to a winter's wood and a shipping container. Same mountain, new tools.
Shorts
Thirty seconds each, made for phones: how it began, the summer that started it all, the model that came before the mountain, then the mountain in fall, in winter, and both at once. Watch them here, then follow along on TikTok, Reels, and YouTube Shorts.