Building Our Dream House

I believe Rick & I started planning and saving for our dream house the day we got married.  Over the years I've clipped more photos out of magazines of house features I liked and in the last couple of years my Pinterest board has exploded with ideas for every feature of a house that you can possibly imagine even down to cabinet door handles.  Our plan was to build our retirement home once our kids were out of college.   But about a year ago I called Alan Schrader to see if he minded sharing with me the house plan of a house he built that I loved.  On that phone call he mentioned that he was about to start building in this new gated subdivision that was going to be called "The Stables" and that most lots would be 1 or more acres.  He gave me the address to where the new subdivision would be and I drove out there immediately.  Beautiful property!  So Rick & I drove out to the property and started dreaming.

Choosing Our Builder

We decided to go with Schrader Homes as our builder.  So we met with Alan Schrader and he had us create our wish list for our dream house.  I think I worked for two straight weeks on every detail I could think of for our wish list.  Then we sent that list to the builder and he made a first draft of a contract for our dream house.  Since we didn't have a house plan Alan suggested we meet with Andra Felton, who draws up house plans.  We went through every room on the inside and even how we wanted the outside of the house to look.  Andra had the first draft of our dream home ready for our review about two weeks later.  After countless numbers of changes we finally got the house plan finished and were ready to see how much our dream was going to cost us.


Signing the Contract

Alan Schrader took our wish list and all of the features we had added to the inside and outside of our plan and wrote up all the details and the final cost.  Once we had everything in the contract we signed and waited for ground breaking day.


Waiting Patiently

In the weeks to come I'll update this blog with our progress.  I'm mainly doing this as a way for Rick & me to capture the fun we have while building.  Hopefully we will have a lot of fun and very little hassle.  Thanks for coming along with us to watch our dream house being built.