When Hailey Fort decided she wanted to build a shelter for a local homeless man named Edward, her parents said she had to draw a blueprint first. So the 9-year-old native of Bremerton, Washington, started by planning the 32-square-fbot footprint-and then designed a tiny house from the ground up. Hailey has been building things for most of her life, whether it's helping out her mom, Miranda, with home projects or consulting with her grandfather, who's a contractor. But when it came to constructing Edward's house, she did everything herself (although her parents did step in to give pointers and help lift heavy materials). Miranda and her husband, Quentin, banned Hailey from using power saws and let her work for only about an hour each day, so the house-which has windows, insulation, and solar panels for electricity-took several months to complete. "If she had her way, she would work all day," Miranda says.
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