So, now we had our dream land. Next, we spent over a year looking for the "perfect" home that we wanted to build. My husband has quite a bit of knowledge in different areas of building so he decided to be our contractor, and either do a lot of the work himself or help the subs if at all possible. So we needed to keep that in mind while figuring costs, plans & timeframes.
We actually picked out 3 plans before finding the house plan that we ended up building. The first two were a little too subdivision looking for our hay field (our land was a cow pasture!); and the third house plan soon grew to over 3,000 square foot --> wayyy out of our means, unless we wanted to be "house poor" as Dave Ramsey says, and that what was the point of building it if it would be a bigger form of stress? ;)
One day I was looking thru the "Southern Living Magazine" and saw this perfect little cottage plan. I didn't think he would like it... but I bookmarked the page to show him anyways. To my surprise --> he liked it! He had actually already seen it and liked it then too! :) Woohoo! We finally had a plan that was just what we were looking for -- Perfect look; great character & charm hard to find in "new" houses; do-able square footage; the layout needed some tweaking but that was it! Yayyyy!!!
We actually picked out 3 plans before finding the house plan that we ended up building. The first two were a little too subdivision looking for our hay field (our land was a cow pasture!); and the third house plan soon grew to over 3,000 square foot --> wayyy out of our means, unless we wanted to be "house poor" as Dave Ramsey says, and that what was the point of building it if it would be a bigger form of stress? ;)
One day I was looking thru the "Southern Living Magazine" and saw this perfect little cottage plan. I didn't think he would like it... but I bookmarked the page to show him anyways. To my surprise --> he liked it! He had actually already seen it and liked it then too! :) Woohoo! We finally had a plan that was just what we were looking for -- Perfect look; great character & charm hard to find in "new" houses; do-able square footage; the layout needed some tweaking but that was it! Yayyyy!!!
Here's the plan we decided on ~
And in the meantime, we went to the land (about 40 minutes outside of the city) and we'd ride ATV's, have bonfires, meet our neighbors and ride on our tractor.
Our son C was 4 and little K was barely one year old!
Our neighbor up the road let us keep our tractor there. We loved our 1st tractor -- even if it broke down more than it ran! ha ha
Even I rode the tractor and loved it! Talk about a city mouse/country mouse though!
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