Plan Your Adventure

Let’s plan the trip with you

The Shepherd House is ours, and hosting it is part of how we try to spread a little harmony. Twelve people, six bedrooms, six king beds, three and a half baths, on the lake in Appling, Georgia. Tell us who is coming and we will help you think the week through.

See The Shepherd House Ask us about dates

Dates, rates, and policies stay authoritative on Airbnb and Vrbo.

How it goes

Four decisions and the rest falls into place

Planning a trip for a dozen people is the same problem as planning a week at home: too many open loops. So we close them in order.

  • One · who

    You are not sure the house fits your group.

    Six king beds and 3.5 baths, sleeping twelve, entire home. Count the beds first—everything else gets easier.

    See the layout
  • Two · when

    The week you want is the week everyone wants.

    Masters season and spring lake weekends go early. The live calendar lives on the listing, so it is never stale.

    Check the calendar
  • Three · the days

    Nobody wants a trip that needs a spreadsheet.

    Lake mornings, a real kitchen, firepit nights, and Augusta within planning distance when a day needs a reason.

    Lake country & area
  • Four · what you bring

    The house is booked; the trip still needs its small comforts.

    Candles for the nightstand, fire starters for the pit, a book bundle for the drive. All from the shop.

    Pack the trip

The Shepherd House

A retreat, a business, and a way to pass the calm on

The Shepherd House seen from the drive, porch lights on at golden hour.

Appling, Georgia

Sleeps twelve without anyone drawing the short straw

You need rest that does not require managing anyone else’s expectations.

Six bedrooms, six king beds, 3.5 baths, and the whole house to yourselves. Unhurried mornings, evenings around the fire, lake days with soft landings, and rooms arranged so kids’ corners and adult rest can coexist.

Book a visit See the full house

House rules & availability live on Airbnb and Vrbo

A wide kitchen island with seating at The Shepherd House, open to the water view beyond.

Eat like you live there

A kitchen big enough to cook for everyone

Twelve people, three meals a day, one week.

This is where our meal-prep habit earns its keep. Build the week’s meals before you drive, shop once when you land, and spend the rest of the trip outside. The recipes we cook at home are the ones we share.

Plan the meals Use the app for it

Meal planning & grocery lists live in Anchor & Bloom

The firepit lounge at The Shepherd House, strung with lights over the water at dusk.

The evenings

Firepit nights are the part people remember

The good part of the trip keeps getting pushed to “tomorrow.”

Light the fire early. Our hand-made Georgia pinecone fire starters exist because we got tired of losing forty minutes to damp kindling while the kids lost interest.

Shop fire starters See the experience

Checkout stays in the shop

A birthday cake with lit candles on a table set with flowers, balloons and a child just behind it.

A reason to gather

Birthdays, reunions, and the years with a big number on them

Everyone says they want to get together, and nobody wants to host twelve people.

Six king bedrooms and three and a half baths means nobody is on an air mattress and nobody is sharing a bathroom with a teenager. The kitchen is set up to actually cook in, and there is room to put candles on a cake and sing without moving furniture. This is a business for us, but it started as a way to spread a little harmony—we would rather your people had somewhere real to land.

Check the dates Ask us about a group

Airbnb and Vrbo hold the calendar and the rates

Pack the trip

Small comforts that travel well

Hand-poured, hand-assembled, small-batch. Every product page, photo, and checkout button stays in the shop—this page just points you at the right shelf.

  • Candles

    A strange room needs one familiar signal that the day is over.

    Rising Light hand-poured soy candles—Cozy Nights, Calm & Quiet, Morning Coffee, and Fresh Start.

    Shop candles
  • Fire starters

    You want the fire lit before the kids lose interest.

    Hand-made Georgia pinecone fire starters for the fire pit or the wood stove.

    Shop fire starters
  • Comfort kits

    Someone you love is having a hard season.

    Comfort kits and gift boxes assembled to be handed over without a speech.

    Shop comfort kits
  • Books for the drive

    Four hours in the car with nothing to read.

    The Dino & Friends six-book special with the canvas bag—and the novels, for whoever is not driving.

    Shop book bundles
A comfort bundle card reading “A Little Light Can Change a Day,” photographed with The Shelter on knit fabric.
One page, one flame, one day at a time
The same comfort bundle card and The Shelter, with dried lavender alongside.
Curated to be given, not explained

Prefer to browse everything at once? The full shelf—including the Amazon storefront of things we actually use—lives in the Shop.

While you are planning

Same welcome, different doors

A stay, a shelf of goods, and a story for the road all answer the same wish: somewhere to exhale.

Pick the week. We will help with the rest.

Book The Shepherd House, or start by asking us whether your group fits.

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