When you're building your own home, you're also going to have an estimated schedule. It's the theoretical structure that holds a million equally theoretical (yet all-too-real) pieces together. A long ...

The Shelter Institute's timber frame classes are sold out for 2026 due to rising interest in self-building homes.

Learn to build your own cabin cheaply and sustainably and learn about the green building benefits of sustainable, green-living homes. In 2013, I was living in a large city, but I felt it was time to ...

Madissen King's husband Ben has always dreamed of building his own house. Ben, who is ex-Amish and a contractor, spent years ...

Building your own toolbox isn’t just about collecting tools but it prepares you to handle unexpected fixes and empowers you ...

Sick of paying for a gym membership just so you can use that pretty basic — and dubiously clean — equipment? (To say nothing of waiting for your turn at the most popular machines, and using those grim ...

Would you bother to use 2x6" for the walls?<BR><BR>It's much more expensive, but I like the idea of R19 in the walls (plus styro-board for a combined ~R25) and haven't seen anything higher than R13 ...