We are Building A House

It's very exciting and very scary all at once.  What is the saying "If you can survive building a house your marriage will last"  So far so good (knock on wood).  Dustin and I haven't fought on anything.  I think it's mostly due to me.  I know what Dustin likes and what he's going to pick, so I make my picks within his picks and get him to see why my pick is better.  So it's a compromise, but a strategic one.

We went to the local Parade  of  Homes back in the fall.  Dustin found a layout he really liked.  Let me be honest here, I didn't really care either way which layout we had.  I just knew that I didn't want a 2 story.  When we found one, then we made a few modifications.  I personally didn't like that the garage takes up most of the view out of the front of the house.  But now a days you can't get away from that.

After hours of Dustin going over the layout, designing it and redesigning it we finally signed the contract.

We are building a house.  The contract is very detailed and goes into every detail, like when the workers are on site we can't be there.  Which is understood.  It states when we can start making our house selections like cabinets and plumbing.  Everyone we've dealt with so far have been amazing and so accommodating with Dustin's need to know every detail at every stage.  I'm sure they've dealt with like that before.

Our garage is going to almost as big as our house now.  Seriously we could move into the garage and make it work.  We are going to have way to much space.  I'm sure Dustin's hoarding tendencies will kick in and we will run out of space soon ;P

 http://discoveryliving.ca/index.cfm
 Here is the website for Discovery Homes.

This past week we had to make our house selections.  So far we've been to All Weather Windows, the guy there was very helpful and informative.

We went to Norcraft Cabinets for our cabinets selections.  There is really a lot they can do with cabinets now adays.  There is more than just your standard shelve cabinets. The lady we dealt with was awesome.  She was so patient and really helped us with colours and choosing counter tops.

We also went to The Ensuite for plumbing.  The guy we dealt with was really hard to like.  He kept saying things like "This is standard and what I have in my house" "No skin off my back choose what you want" He was 20 minutes late for our meeting and so unorganized, he didn't have the layout of the place and we had to tell him what was what.

We still have lighting, interior and flooring and alarm, phone/cable to pick out.  Lots of selections to make.  It feels like sometimes that when we go to an appointment we make a selection then they say ''Oh you don't have to make a final selection now, you have till they break ground"

I want to start packing now.  We should be in our house by March 2016, we have alot of stuff.  But Dustin said no and won't be me any boxes lol.


 

This is what the front of our house is going to look like

Can't wait!!!