“The experience of seeing home after home being razed to the ground in Houston left a searing impression. Instead, their search brought them something unexpected: an abandoned 1930s cabin in the Schoharie Valley, now called Hemp House-and their own design studio, Earth to People. The couple set their sights on the Catskills, initially looking to built their own straw-bale house. “ We felt a longing for nature for us and our two sons (Noah, now four years old, and Theo, now two years old),” Jordan writes. Thanks to their efforts, the couple’s own house stayed standing, but the relentless demolition and quick-builds cropping up around them were antithetical to the environment they wanted to live in-and raise kids in. “Houston, like many big cities throughout North America, is notorious for irreparably cutting ties with the past by tearing down historic homes and buildings in the name of new development, often cookie-cutter structures made with mass-produced, chemically laden materials that need repair shortly after completion due to the fact that they are built with speed and profit as priorities instead of quality and mindfulness.” “It was a small two-bedroom single-story pier-and-beam house we loved dearly, so much so that we undertook the time-intensive task of having it designated a historic landmark to prevent it from ever being demolished,” Jordan writes to us. The couple-she a teacher from Houston, he from Vancouver, and working in the film industry-fell in love with an early 1900s folk-Victorian when they moved to the city from NYC. The first house Brittany and Jordan Weller saved was in Houston. Icon - Check Mark A check mark for checkbox buttons. Icon - Twitter Twitters brand mark for use in social sharing icons. Icon - Pinterest Pinterests brand mark for use in social sharing icons. flipboard Icon - Instagram Instagrams brand mark for use in social sharing icons. Icon - Facebook Facebooks brand mark for use in social sharing icons. Icon - Email Used to indicate an emai action. Icon - Search Used to indicate a search action. Icon - Zoom In Used to indicate a zoom in action on a map. Icon - Zoom Out Used to indicate a zoom out action on a map. Icon - Location Pin Used to showcase a location on a map. Icon - Dropdown Arrow Used to indicate a dropdown. Icon - Close Used to indicate a close action. Icon - Down Chevron Used to indicate a dropdown. Icon - Message The icon we use to represent an email action. Icon - External Link An icon we use to indicate a button link is external. Icon - Arrow Right An icon we use to indicate a leftwards action. In With the Old: Hemp House, the First Project of a Young Studio in the Catskills - Remodelista Icon - Arrow Left An icon we use to indicate a rightwards action.
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