October 2021 Building a House
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Comments (247)Exterior paint. Its pretty blue but I think it looks good. The two houses that are closest (and finished) are dark gray and dark blue/gray. We like it a lot. These are from Monday but I guess it was painted on Sunday. The interior paint guys said it was done when the showed up in the morning. They are finishing up the inside paint but are taking their time. They did the basement Monday and part of the 2nd floor yesterday. I'm guessing it'll take them at least until tomorrow to finish upstairs and the main floor but thats just a guess. The builder did say grading and exterior stone would start before the weekend. I hope that happens....See MoreOctober 2020 Building a Home
Comments (501)@a - I can't tell what the dimensions in your kitchen are but if you can swing the changes toward your idea I like it. You could see if you could get narrower cabinets on that wall to help, I know some you can get only 21 inches deep. Otherwise you could do a wall of shelves or something, but you'd lose counter space, of course. My kitchen is smaller but I'm having a minimum of 3'8" between, the minimum recommended distance for wheelchairs. I saw how my dad struggled for 13 years in a wheelchair in an older house not built for it and I decided I'd rather not take chances because you never know. I'm still getting a decent side island. @Rebecca Delo, aren't windows wonderful? We were lucky in that the way our house is built the windows were in last year. Now it's a matter of DH and I putting the garage doors in so we can really close the place off this winter and use one of those bullet style heaters so we can finally continue working all winter. (or at least part of it, we could use a break sometime!) @Keepthefaith MIGirl, I love you're going to paint your chandelier. DH had this idea a couple of months ago that I was handy and creative enough to find some old fixture somewhere and make a brilliant (and cheap I suspect is his real thinking!) looking chandelier for our dining room. I'm willing to give it a try but I made NO promises! lol...See MoreMAY 2021 Building a Home
Comments (437)#Marie J. Hah, re the projects. 2 1/2 years in and we are still working on “projects”. We built a one level with a walkout lower level. Decided to pay them to frame the lower level in 2018 when we were building. (REALLY GLAD WE DID IT NOW) lol. We are taking on the Sheetrock a little at a time. Just going to finish bedroom/bathroom and a small cat room for now. It’s slow going. Lol. You have a beautiful house! And LOVE your kitties! I just lost my 19 year old cat. It broke my heart.💔...See MoreEstimate for costs for building a custom home in 2021
Comments (3)There is no standard as mentioned above. We have a great builder, loved by everyone he's worked with, but even some of his estimates calculated from the building plans were way off. We are double on what was budgeted for cabinets, so instead of 5 figures we went into 6 figures. Front door twice as much. Electrical we went way over. Garage doors twice as much. Irrigation well four times as much. Etc. I think some of it is because the area we are building in, had in the past been a cheaper area to build in, but due to many reasons the last few years, the demand and pricing have creeped up to match some metro areas in the northeast. I would guess that the estimated price per sq.ft has gone up roughly $70-100 since we bought the lot 2 years ago. We are able to deal with these extra expenses, but not something you really want to have happen. You have to put things in perspective too ... we used to live in CA and built a large guest house 10 years ago. Even the elevated cost/sq.ft we are paying now, in our new area, will be less than what we paid 10 years ago in CA! The other cost you have now during covid, with the delay of getting materials, is having to come up with money/deposit for orders much earlier than you would have in the past. You have to do this or you won't have materials arrive in time to get the house built. For example some window orders are out 7 months, when normal lead times would have been 6 weeks. The bank hasn't changed their process to account for this, so we are the ones who have bankrolled all this extra cash that normally wasn't needed as early in the process. It is what it is, but definitely a roller coaster ride many of us didn't anticipate when life plans were set into motion a few years ago! Bottom line, don't take on a custom home build unless you have the flexibility to handle similar, or worse, events. Good luck!...See MoreRelated Professionals
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