Possible Clues:

• Built home as a hobby, or for a lark, perhaps
• Fitted together what's required to admit saint
• Built a treetop home
• Like many measuring spoons
• Made a home as requirement across street
• What the Russian dolls did with demand to get around street
• Settled in looking back over time in study
• Settled down
• Built a home in a tree
• Be tucked inside study going back over time