In this generation of self-starters and self-made women and men, do-it-yourself isn’t just an option, it’s a way of life. And if there’s not an app for that, chances are there’s a YouTube video for it ...

Cara Brookins needed to make her family solid again. The single mom of four — Hope, Drew, Jada and Roman, ages 17 to 2 at the time — had recently left a marriage where she was a victim of domestic ...

LITTLE ROCK, Ark. – With two bad marriages behind her and debt that came with them, Cara Brookins needed a place to stay for her and her four kids. Brookins, who writes young adult novels for a living ...

A single mother needed to find a home but had a limited budget — so she decided to build one herself. Cara Brookins and her four children built their home from the ground up using guidance from ...

With limited funds, but the wish to give each of her kids a room to call their own, one mom in Bryant decided to build her own home. And not with the usual instruction you'd think. The Brookins family ...

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"To watch your children raising the walls of a house," Cara Brookins explained, "those were the moments that were really rewarding." A single mother of four proved no project was too big as she led ...

This weekend, I helped my daughter and her friend create a tornado in a bottle from a YouTube tutorial, and I felt pretty awesome about myself. That is, until I learned about a mom who built an entire ...

Video: Man saves £35k building house extension by following YouTube tutorials himself Frustrated by his inability to hire a professional at a reasonable price, Scott Baggaley, 30, decided to build his ...

With two bad marriages behind her and debt that came with them, Cara Brookins needed a place to stay for her and her four kids. But Brookins, who writes young adult novels for a living, didn’t have ...