Building a home
May 19, 2012 | My husband Jeff and I had built it in the footprint of the home we had lost to a fire 14 months earlier, and a gnawing voice in my head was now telling me that it was wrong to have this house, that it was wrong to benefit from tragedy, and that... After the fire, we spent months planning and designing a new house, working with the architect and builders, shopping at every bargain building supply store we could find, spending late nights online trying to find just the right affordable light... Jeff and his friends, who did a lot of the work themselves, spent a lot of time filling dumpsters, painting, building a deck, putting up gutters and more. To afford a house with the space we needed, we settled on one that needed a lot of work. When it was destroyed in the July 2010 fire, we had not only a mortgage but a lot of sweat equity that had made the house ours.
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