Or, really, to learn how to put up a tiny part of a house: the long wooden studs that sheathe the inside of one living room wall.

Every panel in the wall was intricately decorated with carvings and tiny wooden studs.

As a result, the trapped moisture can eat away at wooden studs and wall sheathing.

Pink rolls of insulation lined the back walls, filling the gaps between the wooden studs.

Some lath-and-plaster and interior trim remain, but the ceilings and walls have been stripped down to the wooden studs.

Unfortunately, most residential walls are made of fragile wall board nailed to wooden studs.

Old-fashioned magnetic stud finders work by sensing the nails in wooden studs behind the wall.

The wooden studs and beams were still exposed and sturdy.

The paper backing of pink fiberglass insulation showed between the wooden studs, and the floor was bare concrete.