Budget Breakdown: Their Dream Home Can Come Later—First, They Built a Tiny Cabin for $40K
An outdoors-loving couple DIY’d a 180-square-foot retreat in the woods where they plan to eventually put a primary residence.
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Lauren Bell and Joey Parent were persistent. When they first considered buying land in Fayette County, West Virginia, they were set on building a home from scratch in the woods somewhere between where they both grew up. They had a lot of details in mind for the kind of land they wanted, but in order to narrow down their search, they agreed on one in particular: There had to be running water. "As it turns out, finding a place where running water intersects a paved road in a rural county is not easy," Lauren says.
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Kelly Dawson
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Kelly Dawson is a writer in Los Angeles who has been contributing to Dwell's print and online publications since 2015. Follow her on Instagram @kellydawsonwrites.
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