“When the world seems too crazy, I come home and make a crazy birdhouse.” Hendricks says she puts a lot of thought into her designs and is always experimenting. She enjoys making houses that ...

While Jobs may have helped inspire the look of birdhouse, Gray’s 95-year-old father Chuck gets lots of credit. Growing up in Alaska, Gray learned to love being able to see birds in their nest.

An old-fashioned bellows camera complete with a tripod, a toy train with an engine and caboose, and a floppy-hatted gnome were just some of the birdhouse designs entered in Habitat for Humanity of ...