Photos Showcase: Sustainable Materials and Support of Local Businesses in Our New Home

Reader Contribution by Jennifer Kongs
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The Small Home, Big Decisions series follows Jennifer and her husband, Tyler, as they build a self-reliant homestead on a piece of country property in northeastern Kansas. The series will delve into questions that arise during their building process and the decisions they make along the way. The posts are a work in progress, written as their home-building adventure unfolds.

For this post, we are sharing a few photos of our house, which is now 90 percent complete! After writing so many posts about sourcing our materials, we feel it is only fair to give the “real deal” some time to shine. We are also proud of working with so many local businesses, and only turning to big box stores near the end of our building process and when we didn’t have any other alternatives within our budget. Our contractor, Jeff Wooster, chooses to work with trusted, local subcontractors as a rule of thumb, so it was totally natural to find people to work with that we felt good about supporting.

As a reference point, you can find more information about how we chose and sourced the materials (as well as our installers) that are shown in the photos below by reading some of the previous posts in our blog series:

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