The Collodge Story:

Our brand is "Collodge" with unique properties serving the University of Alabama community.

It began with Barden purchasing Everhope, trying to become a cool cowboy and enabling a boutique lodging experience for guests. He was prepared for new experiences but was surprised with just how vastly his life would change. The daily adventures of utilizing the land to live, the satisfaction of employing locals in population 3,000 America, the rewards of historic preservation, and meeting prhenomenal people from around the world.
At Everhope the historic mansion was preserved and its foothold strengthened via an approximately 2,000 square foot addition, incorporating bathrooms, laundry rooms, and a state of the art kitchen, as well as lovingly restoring and building out multiple guest quarters and the carriage house.

A few years later, he met Amanda, and she moved from Ohio to marry Barden and make Everhope more than just a storied house and once again a home.

Everhope's lodging success led us to the launch Ivory Dynasty in downtown Tuscaloosa!
At Ivory Dynasty, we preserved original 1960 features, including plaster walls, hardwood floors, hand crank-windows tin roof and wood - interior shutters while saving landfills to the best of our ability.

We value hand-selected craftsmanship over mass production, preservation over greenfield development, and architectural diversity over cookie-cutter design. We specialize in orphaned properties, vacant or on the market for years, and transform them into "Once in a World Experiences"!

We are committed to growing with the community and have hosted pro bono events for The University of Alabama, the Japan America Society, Eutaw City, the Alabama Trust for Historic Preservation; the Greene County Industrial Development Board; the Greene County Historic Society, the Guadalupana Sisters/Diocesan Catholic Center of Concern in Eutaw and Wounded Warriors. Thank you to those who recognize our community contributions and preservation efforts.

Bon voyage,
Amanda and Barden