We are closing on our lot next Friday! The plans should be back from the architect by then...We are getting excited and now it seems to be time to get things rolling. Dale finished the spec sheets with the materials and when the plans are complete we will get an appraisal off the plans.
I am predicting an April start with cutting in the driveway and clearing the building site. WE ARE VERY EXCITED. We have built and remodeled many homes and it is definitely in our blood.
My tip for today.... before you begin.... Take out your good car mats and buy some cheap ones because no matter how hard you try your car is going to get muddy! Note to self...put some mud shoes in the car for when I drop by for the same reason.
Tuesday, February 21, 2012
Wednesday, February 15, 2012
Planning
Thinking and visualization of our house plan.
Finding the plan is sometimes hard, compare your needs vs. your wants and come up with a practical way to combine those to fit your family needs. I look through countless magazines and web sites. I usually can come up with my basic plan then combine them into something unique for us. I ride around a lot and take pictures. Patterns of your taste will become apparent.
Mentally live in the house. Walk from room to room. Stand on your lot and look out where the windows will be. Cook in the kitchen. Sit in the rooms think about where the doors look into... we once built a house that you could see into a hall bathroom from the kitchen...we could have flipped the bath and would have solved the problem! I literally get out my measuring tape and measure room size so that I know the size to make sure we will fit our furniture and ourselves into a room.
My husband usually draws our plan... he has a nifty program to help him... it is really cute because he even puts furniture in the room. I made fun of him until I realized how it helped me to decide about window and door placement. We have settled on our plan now and it will go to our architect and he will do the exterior elevations for us. We hope to try some new things and products in this house. We are interested in energy savings.... once this is all done we make our budget...as I like to call it my spending plan!
Finding the plan is sometimes hard, compare your needs vs. your wants and come up with a practical way to combine those to fit your family needs. I look through countless magazines and web sites. I usually can come up with my basic plan then combine them into something unique for us. I ride around a lot and take pictures. Patterns of your taste will become apparent.
Mentally live in the house. Walk from room to room. Stand on your lot and look out where the windows will be. Cook in the kitchen. Sit in the rooms think about where the doors look into... we once built a house that you could see into a hall bathroom from the kitchen...we could have flipped the bath and would have solved the problem! I literally get out my measuring tape and measure room size so that I know the size to make sure we will fit our furniture and ourselves into a room.
My husband usually draws our plan... he has a nifty program to help him... it is really cute because he even puts furniture in the room. I made fun of him until I realized how it helped me to decide about window and door placement. We have settled on our plan now and it will go to our architect and he will do the exterior elevations for us. We hope to try some new things and products in this house. We are interested in energy savings.... once this is all done we make our budget...as I like to call it my spending plan!
Monday, February 13, 2012
Here we go again
Since I watched the movie Julia and Julia... I wanted to have a blog. But I wanted it to be about something that I knew how to do and I wanted to blog while I did it. So....
We are in the process of buying a lot and plan to build another Looney house. My plan is to every day or two I will post what is going on and share a story and if I get good I will share pictures.
Right now we are meeting with the bank, the Opelika planning commission and the perk test man.(who by the way is one of the girls retired school teacher) We have been walking the lot and found the pins on each corner of our 6 acres..... if the stars align with all the above then we will begin!
Geri
PS: No this is probably not "it".... we will keep on building as long as we can...mostly because it is what we do!
We are in the process of buying a lot and plan to build another Looney house. My plan is to every day or two I will post what is going on and share a story and if I get good I will share pictures.
Right now we are meeting with the bank, the Opelika planning commission and the perk test man.(who by the way is one of the girls retired school teacher) We have been walking the lot and found the pins on each corner of our 6 acres..... if the stars align with all the above then we will begin!
Geri
PS: No this is probably not "it".... we will keep on building as long as we can...mostly because it is what we do!
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