A Different Tack A pandemic pivot led a couple to change course and take up carpentry. Their first project? Their home.

and her partner, Mario Marotta, lost their jobs at Carrasco International Airport in Montevideo, Uruguay. (She worked for Iberia; he for Aerolíneas Argentinas.) The shock led them to make a radical decision: to give up the three-bedroom rental where theybuild a compact wooden dwelling at the back of Natalia’s mother’s yard.