We Need This
“I didn’t know yet how to frame a window or a door, how to snake pipes and wires through a wall or how to draw up blueprints and obtain permits. But I knew my kids, and I knew we needed this,” wrote Cara in her book. Building their own home was an answer to some of their deepest scars. There was no looking back now.

We Need This
Joint Effort
Everything that they did to the house was a joint effort. Everyone pitched in. Hope did the marking whlile Drew ran the nail gun. Someone was always there to watch her youngest, Roman, as the 2 year old toddler joyfully stomped in and out on the job site.

Joint Effort