California natives and lovers of the great outdoors, we are the Gustos! When my husband, Josh, and I met sixteen years ago, we would never have guessed we would buy our first home together as a family on two acres in the middle of a pandemic. Or that we would be tearing down nearly every […]

I have always been a long time admirer of those epic living walls!  It’s my secondary goal in life to live in a space that feels like the living breathing outdoors, my primary goal being to live in the actual outdoors.  Perhaps it is that connection to nature in all of us that craves this […]

Whenever someone comes over to my house they exclaim,  “That is the happiest fiddle fig I have ever seen!”  And, it’s true.  Our lil’ babe here was purchased when she was a mere 2.5 feet tall, costing us a meager $29.95 at our corner nursery.   But, now?  The ol’ gal is towering at 13 feet […]