At 7 a.m. Tuesday an excavator arrived to take its first bite out of the steeply angled A-frame building that had been a landmark on Costa Mesa’s 17th street for more than 60 years to make room for a ...

I want to build my own home (as in I cut the wood and pound the nails, not just design and hire someone) and it has to be cheap to build and quick to go up. Nothing fancy, just the basics of a small 2 ...