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I built my own house in 1977, a small cape cod style home that I still live in today. It had one bedroom (was just my wife and I) on the first floor which later became the den when I finished the second floor a few years later when we started having children. Later on we added a family room and two car garage.
The history of the cape cod style house explains that the early settlers did it this way, building a small main house with additions being made as the family and finances grew.
I was only 21 years old at the time and had little to no help to build. What did help was that I had been a carpenter apprentice for a few years building the same type of house.
I started framing mid May and moved in at the end of August same year. Boy I wish I had that kind of energy now!
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