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Our Texas Home

"Only hearts can build a home"

We are incredibly excited and blessed to be building our second home in Texas close to San Antonio and Boerne, in the Hill Country. Our home will be an ADU ( accessory dwelling unit ) and will be built on an existing family members Ranch in Bergheim Texas inspired by the historic German Sunday Houses in the Texas Hill Country. If you're interested in the subject of building a home, or an ADU, please follow along and subscribe to this site by clicking the "Join our mailing list" button on the bottom of the page.

We look forward to sharing with you "step by step" the everyday joys and challenges of building a "Sunday House" on a ranch, in Texas Hill Country.

Our most recent adventures...

Our Texas ADU Home Build Begins

We are so excited to begin the process of building our Texas home! Our home will be built on the Bergheim Texas Ranch, owned by our Son in Law and Daughter. The inspiration for the home is derived from the "Texas Sunday House" style of architecture whereby German farmers and ranchers and their families who lived remotely many miles from a town would build a small (under 1000 sq. ft.) Sunday House in town. This enabled them to travel to the town on Saturday, go to a beer

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Nov 22, 20251 min read

What is a Texas Sunday House?

From the Texas State Historical Association: Sunday Houses. Sunday houses were small second dwellings maintained near a church as a weekend place of residence. They became popular in the late 1800s among farmers and ranchers who lived in areas too remote to permit commuting to services. The families owning such houses normally left their farms and ranches Saturday morning, journeyed to town, took care of shopping and business, attended an evening dance or party, and spent

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Nov 24, 20253 min read

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