Hi there, we are Simone and Andrew!

We have built cabins and a beautiful business together, and we are so proud to share them with you!

First of all, thank you for being here! Andrew and I have come a long way on this land, and we're so proud and excited to share it with you.

We started working on the property shortly after we bought it in 2009. It looked very different then - a sad graveyard of dead birch trees and brush with just a promise of a Lake view someday. Turning this land into a haven, not just for us but also for others, was not a part of our plan. Our goal was to build a small cabin that would be our little home during the Summertime, and easy o shut down in the Winter so we could travel together. Needless to say that life takes its turn, and the best thing we did was not to give up and keep working on it.

After over a decade of hard work, we finally get to enjoy our dream lifestyle. We love meeting our guests, and we couldn't be more proud of what we have created here. It is a gift to share our little corner of the world with you, and we hope you receive it with love and appreciation.

Meet the Hosts

Andrew was born and raised in Grand Marais, MN.

He knows every nook and cranny of these woods and has an enormous respect and connection with the North Shore.

His great-great-grandparents came from Norway and settled here - next time you see him around, ask him about how his great-great grandpa carried a wood stove on his back from town all the way up to their homestead, on the Gunflint Trail.

Andrew is the engineering brain and construction muscles on our property. He and his good ol' friend Kent locally logged and sawed all the timbers in the Agua Norte Cabin - also, next time you see him, ask him where those timbers came from and he'll tell you exactly where and how they found the trees.

Oh, but don't get me wrong, he is very well traveled and lived in a few different parts of the country to pursue different dreams and curiosities, from flying planes and spearfishing to a logging business.

He returned home after meeting the love of his life during a Winter off in Hawaii.

As much as Andrew has of a local boy, Simone had of a non-local gal.

She was born and raised in Brazil, on a little island called Florianopolis. Portuguese is her first language and she'll firmly stand behind that excuse whenever proper English grammar is missing.

Snow, bears and drilling fishing holes on frozen bodies of fresh water were just reality in the cartoons she'd watch as a child.

She'd have wrinkled her 20 year old nose if you told her she'd marry a Minnesota man, swapped flops for snow boots and sun cap for a wool hat and learned how to saw, sand and hand plane, and sketch and design in Imperial System.

Oh, and of course, casually say that 40 degrees (Fahrenheit, mind you) is rather "quite nice out".

After receiving her Bachelors in Business, she moved to Grand Marais to commit to the Minnesota boy and Lake that stole her heart.

GET A HOLD OF US

Building cabins or a hosting business?

If you're scoping out some land to build cabins to start your own airbnb business, or maybe you're right in the middle of it all and need a hand - I got you!

Let's work together