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Living in what you can afford to build—until you can afford to build more. In places where mortgages are not readily available, people use the layaway plan.They lay away money, and then they build their plans.

A custom gate which opens to a classic pool and courtyard

The humble drop cloth, protector of floors and furniture from paint drips and sawdust and fragments of fiberglass like stiffer bits of spiderweb ...

Beautiful and long lasting, this pedestal has ventilation holes for drying.

I like to see the guts of buildings when the surfaces crumble and reveal what's behind the plaster and paint.

Keeping it #oldschool and building double-hung windows like they used to

Fitting finished stair parts that are too narrow and too deep

There's something about the old materials that modern concrete, and even modern tile cannot surpass

Using modern pneumatic tools, a roofer plies an ancient craft in Ecuador