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Stay-At-Home Improvement: DIY Builders Help Drive Up Lumber Prices

With the help of his children, Knoxville, Tenn., resident Matt Harris put the finishing touches on his dream treehouse on Father's Day. Matt Harris hide caption

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Stay-At-Home Improvement: DIY Builders Help Drive Up Lumber Prices

July 14, 2020 • With summer travel plans on hold because of the pandemic, a lot of Americans are putting money into projects around the house. That's taxing lumber supplies and pushing prices higher.

Stay-At-Home Improvement: DIY Builders Help Drive Up Lumber Prices

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A Giant Treehouse 'Like A Castle' Is Destroyed By Fire In Tennessee

A Tennessee man named Horace Burgess began constructing the treehouse in the early 1990s, saying God had called on him to do it. Pablo Maurer hide caption

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A Giant Treehouse 'Like A Castle' Is Destroyed By Fire In Tennessee

October 24, 2019 • The structure rose five stories, with a towering steeple. Its builder said he'd been called by God to make it. By the time the firetrucks were called on Tuesday, it was fully engulfed in flames.

A Giant Treehouse 'Like A Castle' Is Destroyed By Fire In Tennessee

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