Sushil Verma

Starting the Dream In 2025, we bought six acres of wooded land. After more than 18 months of cleanup, site preparation, designing our house, and splitting the project into phases, we were finally ready to start. The goal was simple but ambitious: build a debt-free, high-performance, addition-ready home. Breaking Ground On march 21st, 2025, we …

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Preparing the Layout We began our cinder block basement build with excitement and determination. After learning the basics of block laying, we returned home ready to put our knowledge into practice. The first step was laying out the slab. Using string lines and careful measurements, we marked the corners and checked our distances carefully. With …

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In this article, we are going to go through all the steps of building a custom home here in the mountains of Western North Carolina. It’s about a 2,000 square foot home on a full basement. We started this basement foundation by pinning the four corners with stakes. Then we pulled string lines between those …

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