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Where to Shop in Nashville and Brown County, Indiana

Nashville, IN is known for its shopping, and one of the best parts about shopping here is that basically all of the shops are small, locally-owned businesses. There are dozens - if not hundreds - of shops and studios in Brown County, which means there is something for everyone! But it also means that, if you’re not familiar with the area, it can be hard to know where to start. But our in-depth guide can help!

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Amenities We Offer and the Host Mindset "Trick" I Use

After two years of hosting guests in our four Airbnb units - and many more years of hosting in my own home - I’ve learned that being a successful host requires a slightly different mindset than designing and setting up spaces for your own personal use. So, as we head into this holiday hosting season, I thought it’d be helpful to share how I try to ensure that any design decision or product choice we make for our guest spaces fits into one or more of these four requirements - Is it: OBVIOUS - EASY - CLEAN - INCLUSIVE? Let’s explore what that means in practice…

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Five Lessons Learned Making the Brown County Barn Burner a Reality

As I’ve shared in previous posts, it was a winding road for us to go from dreaming up the idea of the Barn Burner to actually breaking ground and starting the construction. So for anyone else in the process of dreaming big and trying to make their ideas a reality, here are five lessons we learned along the way…

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Our Journey to Funding & Building the Barn Burner

This is a continuation of the story I started telling in my last post about how we moved to Brown County in late 2016 (on a bit of a whim, to be honest) and ultimately dreamed up, designed, and built the Brown County Barn Burner.

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About Us & Our Journey to Brown County

Hi there! We’re Clint & Kara - the dreamers, doers, and husband and wife duo behind the Brown County Barn Burner and I’d love to share a bit more about us and how we’ve ended up here.

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