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Re: Garden Trellis

I just loved your design, hope to re-create this at my own home, won't look as good as your's but I'm going to try.

Re: How Would YOU Design a Home for Disaster Victims?

After reading thru quite a number of responses, it appears all of the ideas are great. My thought would be to use the concrete initially destroyed in the quake as footing material to rebuild. I am relatively new to Fine Home Building and the blog, however, the more I read and see, the more I realize the amount of "waste" that is without a doubt viable building material somewhere else, i.e. concrete/footings Haiti.

I am interested in spending a month in Haiti to help out if there is a group who might be available in July. I have little in the way of building, but I have a lot of soul, and ideas.