So…..are you ready to
decide what your dream home will look like?
If you don’t have a set of plans but just have some
ideas, draw them out on a sheet of graph paper. Nothing elaborate, just something to hold
your ideas together so they don’t scatter to the winds.
There are house plans everywhere. The magazine racks are
full of them and they are in every shape and size. Take plenty of time to make this
decision as it will be difficult to change after construction has started. Oh, you can
move a door or a window pretty easily but you can’t decide to build a two story if
your original plan was for a ranch style. Look around the countryside too. You don’t
have to build a house just like someone else but you can get ideas from almost every house
on the road.
During this period of research, you might also look into
the possibility of kit homes. There are hundreds on the market and if you happen to want a
log home, this is the best way to go unless you’re building a home somewhere in
the Northwest where logs are plentiful. There are also many companies that will build just
the shell on your site and you take it from there. I have collected links throughout the web for some of the kit
manufacturers. Take a look at what they offer and do some comparison shopping before
making a selection.
Okay! Are we ready to order our first load
of lumber?
Not quite! We have one more step to complete first –
click on Interim Financing.
