
Our story
Ma·na·a·ki (verb)
To host and care for the people who come to you.
It's a te reo Māori word from New Zealand, where our family comes from. We'd visit and feel it: cousins on the floor, a long table, someone always arriving. Then we brought it home to the US. It was just our family of four here, so we turned our friends into family, and our house filled up the same way. Now we're building Manaaki together, so more houses can feel like that.



