The curse of being an architect is that you spend all day designing beautiful buildings, but probably can’t afford to live in one yourself. (Contrary to what The Brady Bunch and Hollywood movies would have us believe, most architects make very modest salaries.) When I was an architect I figured that, absent a rich benefactor, designing and building my own home was an impossible dream, but one Austin architect has made his dream home a reality for the quite attainable sum of $175,000. Here’s how he did it.
