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Can people of middle-class means design and build a knockout house on a moderate budget?

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Can people of middle-class means design and build a knockout house on a moderate budget?

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That was the plan. The pages arrived without fanfare or warning, sliding almost furtively out of our fax machine. Yet here they were: the first drawings of what will ultimately become our family’s new house. If you’ll pardon the expression, we were floored. As far as we could tell, our house was to be a pair of trailerlike objects connected by a long, narrow core containing all the wet stuff: bathrooms, laundry room, plumbing and so forth. It seemed so–dinky. Was this really all our effort and expense would come to? But when we looked closer, we started to see the glory of the thing, for these were no ordinary trailers. Thirteen feet high and 80 feet long–counting the porch and porte cochere–covered in a gleaming skin of corrugated aluminum with high windows everywhere, the place quickly began to seem awesome. One of the trailers was a giant loftlike space with a wall of towering fenestration. The other big unit, sheltering five private rooms, was segregated from the large public sp

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