Time to build a house

Well now that we have our dream land it's time for our dream house.





We had a plan from years ago we thought was "The One" but a girl can change her mind and that of her husband's :) After buying the land and seeing all the sights I realized it was important for me to have a porch, the original plan only had a stoop so the hunt was on.


We considered KHovnanian and Schumacher but there were limitations that we felt we didn't want to compromise with. We've gone through hundreds of plans trying to make sure every room, every detail would be perfect until they all started looking alike.

While looking we kept trying to find a contractor...wow that's not easy! I thought times were tough, obviously not for construction. We finally found a contractor that would meet us when he said he would and called back when he said he would so we told him we were sure he would be the one building our house this year.


We meet with Joe Hall in January and gave him what we thought was the final house we loved, it was called "The Satchwell". He was to turn in the estimates the following Monday. Out of habit we kept looking at websites with houses and the afternoon after meeting Joe the perfect dream house was the featured house on a new website called coolhouseplans.com. We looked it over for a day to make sure it was perfect and called Joe to tell him change of plans. Joe suggested we work with an architect to get it just right because some changes needed made to make it a bit more affordable.

So we did...


We've been working with an architect of Blackwell and Huggins to get our house plans modified and ready for the builder so he can get us a good estimate. We now have those complete and in the hands of Joe of J&J Contracting. I'm excited to be at the next phase of this house building process.

Here is the house we have chosen:

Here is the main floor layout:

We are now waiting on the estimate and starting the shopping part of this adventure. We're first trying to decide what the outside is going to be vinyl, hardee plank or cedar. Please pray that Mike and I can make it through this long adventure without a scrape.