First Post

For the past year, we (honestly, mostly me...) have been looking for a house plan that we both liked. I found one on the Internet that Doyle's friend, RaeLynn, was able to modify for us. She did a great job changing things around for us and made it just what we wanted.

We put our house up for sale and sold it in seven weeks. We moved into a little rent house (and I mean little....about 900 sq. ft.) and we are finally on our way to building!

Our land....we have 10 beautiful acres that are about half wooded and half pasture and we plan to put the house on the hillside across from the lake so that we can eventually have a bit of a lake view (there will be several trees that need to be cleared in order for the lake to be more visible). Don't get me wrong...I am a tree-hugger at heart, so I'll save as many trees as possible. Anyway, I plan to post pictures as things are done to improve the land. Then I'll post pictures as the house is being built.

By the way, it has taken us a year to get started because the whole process of finding a house plan, modifying it, finalizing it, getting it printed, getting bids from builders (after trying to get recommendations from people for good builders), selling our house, closing on the house, working with the bank, getting appraisals, and then making sure the builder we wanted is able to do it when our bank was ready is a LONG process. Then, when we were finally ready to start...the rain came and delayed us for a couple of weeks. Don't get me wrong...by no means am I bashing anyone here. I am very happy with everyone that we have worked with, and they have all been terrific. It's just that I am totally new to this and had no idea how long all of this beginning stuff would take. But now that the initial stuff is over....let's build this house!