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Create Your Wish List

Create Your Wish List

The best way to get what you want when you build a new home is to really think through what matters. For most, creating a new home is a team effort. Before building your “team" wish list, try creating individual draft wish lists.

Figure Out Your Budget

Figure Out Your Budget

It is easy to take all of the fun out of building a home by looking at homes and features that are “out of budget.” A quick meeting with your local bank loan agent should give you a general idea of how much you can afford to spend on the new house.

Understand Your Site

Understand Your Site

Siting is one of the most influential decisions on a project. It affects the ‘ins and outs’ of your house…. It defines everything from where and how the sun and wind enters your home, to the views that you look out to (for example, you may want to face your big picture window towards the lake instead of your neighbors).

Create or Buy Plans

Create or Buy Plans

When you start with an existing plan – like Plan 888-8 shown here — all of your design dollars are applied to tailoring the plan to your unique needs and desires and the requirements of your site.

Plan Your Fixtures and Finishes

Plan Your Fixtures and Finishes

Building a house involves hundreds (thousands) of decisions. Selecting a new range or picking kitchen countertops may be fun but other decisions, like selecting trim rings for recessed light fixtures, are just work.

Hiring a Contractor

Hiring a Contractor

No single decision effects the experience of building a house more than the selection of a contractor. Find a good one and you may want to write a book about your life changing experience. Pick the wrong one and it's a different type of book...

What Makes A Good Floor Plan?

What Makes A Good Floor Plan?

What makes a good floor plan? The first consideration is the placement and connection of rooms ... the "flow." Next consider light and views and finally (but not in any way less important), the scale of the rooms.

Find Ways to Cut Costs

Find Ways to Cut Costs

The best way to minimize cost overruns is to clearly define your project and give your contractor the opportunity to steer you away from decisions that will blow the budget.

Building Permits

Building Permits

Here is a secret; building departments are usually much easier on homeowners than they are on builders and architects. You do not have to be a contractor or an architect to get a building permit in many places. You can pull an “owner-builder” permit.

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