She found a company that sold her 738 feet of 1-inch poplar half round for $940 — which was enough to cover her surfaces, plus a little bit extra.

Kim and Bobby “Zab” Zabbia built their home in 1974 on the site of what Kim Zabbia calls the “haunted house I ran past on my way to school as a kid.” Fifty years later, the house is a microcosm of the ...