We're Michael and Lauza. I'm an architect. Lauza is a nutritional therapist.
We bought raw land in Madeira and we're building everything from scratch — the food garden, a shed, eventually our home.
I've spent 20 years planning and supervising buildings. Now I'm doing it myself, in wood, in a country I'm still learning. It turns out those are very different things.
Every week we document what's actually happening — the design decisions, the specialist conversations, the physical work, the mistakes. Real process, no finished results yet.
If you're building a home and a different kind of life — or thinking about it — stick around.