The Builder's Secret: Learning the Art of Living Through the Craft of Building - Hardcover

A collection of true stories celebrate the joys of building by people from all walks of life sharing their accounts of learning the craft and discovering the rewards of building

iday, they teach school, practice law, push paper, pound a keyboard, or run a company. But they start their weekends with a trip to the nearest home-improvement center. They're owner-builders, men and women just like you who know the satisfaction of doing it themselves―of adding a deck, remodeling the den, or building a dream house from the ground up.
The Builder's Secret will introduce you to some owner-builders who've renounced ordinary weekend pleasures in favor of lengthy, backbreaking―but ultimately exhilarating―home-building projects. Inside, you'll meet a Connecticut architect and his "city-girl" wife who lived in a tent for a year while constructing their dream house, a flutist with the Boston Symphony Orchestra who began renovating commercial real estate in his spare time when his country home neared completion, and a divorced mother of three who says that she built more than her house during those two years on the job&