Siliconchef by Brian Richardson
Suzan and I made a large step towards a new home last night. We had another meeting with our builder, verifying that this is the guy who will build our house.
We have the initial quote, so now I can start talking to banks about construction loans. I feel pretty confident doing this, since this builder has built houses for vice presidents of several local banks (he gave us their names as references).
My house may not end up as nice as those bank officers’ homes, but it will be my home … on my land … built the way Suzan and I want it. Well, the way we want it within realistic budget constraints. No suburban cookie-cutter living quarters, no vinyl floors, and no stupid neighborhood association.
Of course, I have to see if construction will do permanent damage to our marriage (it is a bit stressful to build a home, possibly more stressful if the damn thing goes over budget), but I have faith that things will go well. At the very least I will have plenty of entertaining stories for the website.
I’ve already gone through my {{link http://www.siliconchef.com/archives/00000004.html closing}}, {{link http://www.siliconchef.com/archives/00000006.html plumbing problems}} and other home improvement disasters. It can’t get much worse than that … can it?
Woohoo! The Geek Farm will soon have a rambling plantation house. Can we call Suzan "Scarlet"?
Do you have house plans we can look at? Or a general description?
Hope everything goes well with the loan! This is so going to kick butt when you guys get it built. The new, improved, Geek Plantation Home.
It’s an L-shaped ranch, just under 2000 square feet. Garage and all the usual rooms on the first floor with a full basement for stuff like drum kits and the like. It’ll sit in the front field, about even with the brick house next door. Overall it’s 3BD/2BA with formal living/dining room, den, kitchen with breakfast nook, mud/laundry room between the garage and kitchen, screen porch on the back and a large front porch.
Sounds like a really cool layout. Sean and I saw a house today, though, that we thought you guys would appreciate. It was a old-fashioned barn that was converted into part barn and part house. It was really quite cool. I’ll have to show you guys pics sometime.
Congo ratz bud. We got the report back from the inpsector yesterday and have 4 "you must fix this or we aren’t closing" items on it. The rest is nusicance stuff at best. The New and Improved Goat Farm…I like it.