The Resurrection of the Dead
My wife Julia and I always wanted to build our own home with our own hands. From the beginning of our marriage we talked about raising and homeschooling our kids in the midst of the construction so that they would have the most practical and rich education possible. We hadn’t settled on style or details, but we knew we wanted a handmade home. As our life and interests developed, our vision crystallized to restore an old house that had fallen into disrepair. By that point, we had already purchased wooded land that we had fallen in love with (with a small manufactured home already on it), so we were in the market for a house that needed to move from...