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Eastern North Carolina
This is the third house Andy and Lisa Bayliss have built for themselves and their children. And though they completed construction in 1999, they actually laid the foundation many years ago.
Even as a young married couple, Andy and Lisa had the building bug. They enjoyed driving around looking at houses, and they dreamed of building a place of their own someday. When their two-bedroom townhouse began to feel more cramped after the birth of their first child, Andy started looking at floor plans and rounding up quotes from various builders. "We needed twenty percent of the cost up front," Andy remembers. "When we realized it would take us twenty years to save that much money, we really got discouraged...    Read the full article...