A mother of four built a house with her bare hands with the help of YouTube and her children

Cari Brookins' life story reads like a screenplay. After being abused by her husband, she divorced, broke all four children and did something that stunned the world. Even though she didn't have the money to afford a house, she didn't stop dreaming about it. Unable to buy one, she decided to build her own. Without any previous construction knowledge, she started building and helped herself with YouTube videos. Today, she lives in a house that every family wants, and she has put her story on paper.

Every one family he dreams of living in a house where he feels at home. After two failed relationships marked by violence and a stalker, this is for Cari Brookins seemed impossible. In 2007 she was driving past the house he hit a tornado and was left of her only wooden construction. Since the whole thing did not seem overly complicated to her, she soon went to the bank and took out a loan in the amount 150 thousand US dollars (for the plot and material) and searched YouTube videos about building a house.

Together with her family, who were enthusiastic about her idea (the children were then 2, 11, 15 and 17 years old), she spat into her hands and the construction of the house began. With the help of videos, they learned how to lay the foundation, construction and everything else and in nine (!) months the house stood as if from a box with 325 square meters, which has five bedrooms and a three-car garage.

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Estate on the street Hickory Drive they named Inkwell Manor, where they have been living for the last eight years. The American woman also put her extraordinary story on paper. The book Rise: How a House Built a Family, will on Amazon power to buy from January 24, 2017 further. If you liked the books Eat, pray, love and Wild, then you will literally devour its pages.