My husband and I just finished building our new home! It was so much stress and work to build it, but we are very happy with the results. It's amazing the little details you have to decide on through this process, from hardware for the kitchen cabinets to doorknobs and floor threshholds! I can't tell you how many little arguments my husband and I got into over the little details-we are both very stubborn and set in our ways! :) In the end it was all worth it.
Even though we are in, we still have so much to do. I'm sure I will spend the next few months unpacking boxes, buying furniture, and picking out blinds and curtains for the house. By the way, if there's anyone out there who knows anything about blinds/curtains please feel free to let me know since I am CLUELESS. This is my first experience with all of this, and I am still learning.
Now that the inside of the house is complete we have a ton of work to do on the outside. We are looking at quotes for the lawn. I cannot believe that it could cost up to $30,000 just to grow grass (which by the way makes me crazy because there was PLENTY of grass here already when I had just an empty lot)! Besides growing grass we also need to look into planting shrubs, trees, and flowers in front of the house. I get myself stressed when thinking about all of this, but I need to keep reminding myself that like my new neighbor says, "Rome wasn't built in a day."
In addition to finishing the big house projects, I will spend the rest of my summer taking weekend trips to the beach, teaching summer school, and coaching cheerleading.
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Congratulations on the new home. It must be great to build and have everything just the way you want it. Yeah, the outside of the house is never finished. You just keep puttering on..
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ReplyDeleteGina from EDU 743, here...congratulations on the new home! That's fantastic :) My father-in-law and I have both used www.stevesblindsandwallpaper.com for the blinds we have in our houses. You have to do the measuring (they do give very specific intstructions), place your order and voila! It magically appears three to five business days later.
They're much much cheaper than any other company we looked at...
Good luck!!!
Gina C.
Hi Amy,
ReplyDeleteCongratulations on the new home. I would love to hear more about the process of building it. If you wanted to write more, maybe you could write a "how to" on building a new home.
For instance, you could write a post about "10 things you should know before you decide to build a house" and you could give advice about buying property, home construction, etc. Or, make it more humorous and focus on preparing homebuilders for the potential battles over small details that arise between partners!
Thanks for the ideas!
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