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Unbuilding rather than tearing down a house

Wall Street Journal columnist Nancy Keates is tearing down her house to build a new one in its place. But instead of taking a wrecking ball to the old house, she's having it "unbuilt" so the items and materials can be reused and recycled. It's taking two weeks longer than a wrecking-ball tear-down, and will cost $4,000 more. What do you think? Worth it? Watch the video clip below and read the story.

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