A Wisconsin couple quit their jobs and moved to West Virginia to construct a cabin using recycled windows, repurposed wood, and a few other materials.
Nick Olson and Lilah Horwitz lived in Milwaukee, with Olson being a photographer and landscaper and Horwitz being a clothing designer and landscaper.
On the couple’s first date, Olson brought Horwitz to some family land in the mountains of West Virginia.
They took in the sunset there.
“We thought: ‘Wouldn’t it be cool to have a house where the whole wall is windows?’” said Horwitz. “Because then you would never be trying to fit the sunset into one little space.”
They moved to the land and subsisted mainly on rice and beans while building the cabin.
They went back to society and work but still have the cabin as a retreat.
