Looking up at the single-pitch roof. Fox’s thoughts on building her own house? “Had I been married to someone else I might have thought, this seems crazy. But my husband’s father built all three houses that they lived in, taught himself how to do plumbing and electrical, and then my brother-in-law, who is a contractor, did the same thing four or five years before us. When we were planing three miles’ worth of wood — it was like four months of cutting the wood down to 2x2s and then sanding and planing it — I was crying, it was terrible! But now I think back and it was totally worth it.”