But when Pomeroy turned up on campus with an armload of recycled materials she had collected, the person in charge took one look at her and said, No, this is not happening. Our course is about building a house, not rummaging through second hand materials.”
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With two mezzanine floors, Pomeroy finds there’s plenty of room for her and her partner. “The guy said to me: ‘Why don’t you build it yourself?’” Pomeroy says, adding that the momentum had already started gathering. So she took on the challenge. It took her two years to build her own home, and another year to finish it properly. She says it was “very, very” hard.