How You Can Build New Skills and a Home Building your own home can seem like a daunting prospect. If you aren’t particularly skilled when it comes to being practical, then it might seem like an impossible dream. Lack of skills aside, there are a lot of benefits to...
Jessica Nelson – 65th Homeowner Jessica Nelson has been dreaming of this moment for 5 years. Walking onto a yard that is hers with a front porch to watch the birds, sun streaming through the trees, and neighbors who stop by to welcome her to the area. Jessica is...
Every Thursday morning, 85-year-old Ned Shows can be found surrounded by his friends at the site of a nonprofit organization Dorchester Habitat for Humanity home. This past week, as he got to work on a house on Lake Drive in Summerville, other volunteers busied...
You know that refreshed, happy feeling you get when you rearrange the living room furniture? We do too – and it’s even better when you spruce up your entire home with a few new-to-you pieces. While affording what you really love isn’t always easy, redecorating the...
2018 is the year of their 25th Anniversary and the Home Build for House #60 has been amazing….and the owner of house number 60 is just as amazing! Lucritia’s Graham was the tenth child born in a family of 11 children. She was especially close to her younger sister...
Dorchester Habitat welcomes newest Homeowner! Leander Baker is our 59th Habitat HomeownerOn January 4, 2018, non profit organization Dorchester Habitat for Humanity presented the keys to the Baker family to celebrate their newest Habitat home built in Dorchester...