Last Day Photo 101 Theme – Home This is the last photo I took of our home of 24 years. We had just signed the final papers and were picking up the last few items. I was feeling a little sad and a little nostalgic; but I don’t think we’ll miss the snow. Taken with my … Continue reading
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Just A Few More Details — and It’s Time to Start Building
It’s really going to happen. We’re really going to build a house. We’ve been dreaming and planning this house for months. It’s taken a long time to get to here; but — we’ve signed a contract with our builder and we’ve applied for the construction loan. There’s been a soil test to determine the strength … Continue reading
More Waiting, More Planning and a Learning Curve
Waiting and Planning… We’ve been waiting for several very long weeks for the second version of the elevation drawing of our home to be. The purpose of this elevation drawing is to show us what the front and sides of our home will look like. Once we agree on the elevation drawing, the construction drawing … Continue reading
Moving – phase 1
We’re Really Going to Move We’ve been working with our builder on the design for our new home for several months now. The fact that we’re moving has not really seemed too real until today because so far all the work on the new house has been on paper only. True, we’ve been packing … Continue reading
The Next Step – Building a House
The Budget Meeting The meeting with our builder went better than I expected. It was a long meeting with lots of discussion about possibilities for reducing costs. It was obvious that he had given a lot of thought to what could be done to stay in our budget. You can read about our budget concerns … Continue reading
Champagne Taste on a Beer Budget
or A CEO’s Taste on a Teacher’s Budget Let’s build a House I’m Starting to Blush This is kind of an embarrassing post. So, why write it? Truthfully, I’m writing this potentially embarrassing post because I believe others may find themselves in the same situation. Now. that I have your attention … Continue reading
The Dream Continues: Researching, Planning, and Waiting … Building a New Home
The dream of our new home continues while we wait on the second version of our home design plans. The first draft didn’t fulfill the vision we had for a light filled, open floor plan. Having never gone through the process of building a home, we really didn’t know what to expect. Evidently, it’s normal … Continue reading
And the waiting begins…
The idea of building our next home still feels like a dream. Especially since we’re in that waiting mode — the one that’s so hard for some of us (me) because it requires patience. We’re waiting to close on our lot; we’re waiting to finalize the floor plan; we’re waiting for the next meeting with … Continue reading
Living in my Dreams (Or Let’s Build a House)
For the last several years, my husband and I have been looking for our next home — our “phase three” home. (I’m borrowing “phase three” from the TV show Soul Man. Maybe I’ll write about those phases some other time.) We’ve looked at many areas within the Dallas/Fort Worth area; but we just couldn’t find … Continue reading
Rainy Day Reflections 