Title: Informed, often disarming and whimsical
Review: What would it be like to build your own home from the ground up? The author offers nine wildly different scenarios ranging from the near-religious to the nearly homicidal. Perseverence pays off for some ("He spent three weekends on his knees scraping black paint off the living room floor with a belt sander until beautiful honey-colored pine appeared.") Others prefer to lunge impulsively at their building project ("I couldn't tell whether the spot I'd chosen was solid bedrock or just loose boulders, and I didn't ask anyone.")The author has a tendency to romanticize brute labor but he does it with an engaging touch of wit. Lovely illustrations throughout. -
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