CASE STUDY
PRACTICE MAKES PERFECT
Serial self-builder Mark Young’s fourth project, an ICF-built family home, has scored so many hits on his family’s wish list that it might be his last project
TEXT ROSEANNE FIELD IMAGES MARK YOUNG
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ack in the November/December 2018 issue of Selfbuilder + Homemaker we spoke to Mark Young about what was then his third self-build. At the time he and his wife Sharon said they weren’t ruling out doing another build, but weren’t planning one anytime soon. Fast forward a few months, however, and things had changed. Mark still had the building bug, and spotted a site with a dilapidated house on it. “I stumbled across it, and thought long and hard about whether to take it on, because it was such a huge project,” he says. “It’s a large site with an existing property,” making it very different to his last build. Despite his reservations, Mark describes it as an “obvious project” and therefore too good
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“I stumbled across it, and thought long and hard about whether to take it on, because it was such a huge project”
HIGH POINT
“Moving out of a mobile home, after nearly two years, into a modern four bedroom house.” – Mark Young
may/june 2022
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