Mother of four with no construction experience erects her dream home using YouTube tutorials

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by Sindy Cator on January 18, 2017 at 12:51 am

After leaving a violent partner in 2008, Cara Brookins and her four children needed a place to live. Short on funds, Brookins was determined to give each of her children a room of their own. So, she built them a house. In her new book, ‘Rise, How a House Built a Family,’ Brookins details the struggle of erecting a house from the foundation up without any prior construction experience. Along the way she relied on information gained in YouTube tutorials and good old fashioned trial and error. According to Brookins: With just a little bit at a time, we figured…