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In 2003, Andrew Mutch was looking to buy a house for himself and his family. At the time, his friends, the previous owners, told him the house was a 1926 Sears "Hamilton" Kit House — which, at the ...

When a $1.1 million Craftsman house in Boulder, Colorado, was first built in 1923, the materials came from a Sears catalog kit that cost $1,797, or the equivalent of around $32,000 today. Even with ...

The holidays just don’t seem as festive without a spread of delicious cookies, candies and other sweets on the table. But there’s no holiday treat quite as iconic as a gingerbread house decorated with ...

Marcin Jakubowski is compiling a DIY set of society’s essential machines and making it open-source. You live in a house you designed and built yourself. You rely on the sun for power, heat your home ...

Over the decades, the kit homes ranged in price from $3,000 to $10,000 depending on the size, design and scope. The companies also sold garages, boilers, chicken coops, bathtubs and built-in shelving.

For better or for worse, you're probably familiar with the process of assembling furniture. You're sent the pieces and the tools, and hopefully, you can take it from there. But what if you could do ...