The author describes his long but ultimately rewarding struggle to build a home for his family with his own hands, discussing the planning and construction of the home and the vast community of new friends he acquired along the way.
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The story of an amateur builder and two novice apprentices and how they turned an overgrown blackberry patch, ten truckloads of lumber, a keg of cut nails and an antique staircase into a real home.
"House-Dream is probably the most warmhearted and engaging book about house building that I've come across. Hugh Howard has done a terrific job of charting the builder's journey while personalizing it for everyone." (Bob Vila)
Major decisions often get made for small reasons. The day we resolved to build a house for ourselves demonstrates how the little can beget the big. The impetus for one of the most momentous decisions of our lives proved to be a tiny wildflower." (from House-Dreams)
Imagine a house tailored to your every need and personal taste. A home with generous living and dining rooms to entertain friends, a kitchen to suit your style, views where you want them, and a study large enough for all your favorite things.
Hugh Howard always dreamed of building such a house. When he and his wife, Betsy, learn that they're expecting their second child, Howard seizes the opportunity. It doesn't matter that his only formal training was working two summers as an electrician's assistant when he was in college or that the two young men who help him - one a skilled hunter, the other a college student from Scotland - have little or no experience in building trades. Howard is determined to design and build a house with his own two hands, a house that combines a sense of history with all the comforts of modern amenities. He learns as he goes, taking the reader on engaging detours through history, architecture, and home design.
Fifteen months later and wildly over budget, Howard - having put in some four thousand hours - completes a home for his family: a fine twenty-five-hundred-square-foot Federal-style-house. Each piece has a story and old hardware store to the staircase from a nineteenth-century parsonage. And along the way, Howard builds a community of new friends - a third-generation mason who constructs a remarkable Russian heater; an eccentric Irish landscaper who creates and unusual garden design; and Charlie, whose ancestors helped establish the hamlet where Howard builds his home.
Full of good stories, bright ideas, and passion for architectural history, House-Dreams is a gratifying story about a man with a dream and the inclination to fulfill it - whatever it takes.
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