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As incremental construction goes, my grandma's house in North Dakota is a pretty good example. It went from a one story small home to a two story home with a wrap-around deck. I'm sure it was some ordered house put on a basement. It had an outhouse in the 70's but indoor plumbing was added. I remember sometime in the 80's putting in a support beam so they could remove some of the walls and support the second story. It was an all-hands task of the relatives with most of my uncle and aunts. I remember Dad's reaction when Grandma announced she had bought a wood stove to put in the house. That was a fun install requiring the removal of a wall, brick base, and running venting.

There was a bit of danger in all this expansion. The look of utter horror on my Dad's and Uncle's face when we turned off all the breakers and the stove was still on makes me laugh but was deadly serious at the time. Fixing that was a bit of an adventure. Dad and Uncle traced every wire in the damn house and I learned some new insults.