by WOODBUTCHER

Created on: February 25, 2007

The art of building a house as referenced from a master carpenter. The individual that is having their dream home built, should understand that there are some initial first steps that depend solely on the individual having the house built. The obvious is financing, however without the proper financing the dream home is dead before the dream ever has a chance to manifest. The biggest mistake that people make is trying to cut corners in the process of building their home. The proper financing is the single most important step in the process of starting the construction of your house.

Once you have your budget you can start to dream, you just have to dream within your budget. In order to design your house you will have to know what you want. Do not worry with making the ideas work, just worry with what you wish to have in your house. You may want a tray ceiling or a step down living room , you may wish to have a raised breakfast nook the options are limitless. Remember that you are working within a budget and that if this is your first house, it will more than likely not be the last. This house will be the first step in learning, you can sell this house and use the equity to build your dream home.

Now that you have all the ideas written down, all of your pictures from magazines, books and more, take it all to your architect. Make sure you do your home work, you will want to check and make sure that you have a licensed architect. Unless you yourself are an architect I would not suggest you try to do any designing. Leave the designing up to the professionals not only that if something goes wrong they are responsible.

This is the proper way and the realistic way to design your amazing house. There will be another article that will walk you through the steps of how to build your house starting with the footing, and we will continue until your house is built. Designing your home can be fun and expensive the thing to remember is that the home is a monetary asset. Allow that asset to work for you, so in the end you have a valuable home. If this is the last house that you will ever build and you are planing to live there the rest of your life, the make sure to plan for retirement in the overall cost of the project. the last thing that you will want is a large mortgage on a fixed income.

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