Well, it has begun... kind of. :)
A few weeks ago we contacted two builders that we've had our eyes on for a couple years now. We met with them both out at our lot and talked with them for quite a while about our schedule and our thoughts on what we're hoping to do as far as building a new home goes.
We met with the owners of O'Brien Builders and Silvercrest Builders (Dennis and Scott, respectively).
Dennis does his own designing on autocad and Scott has an architect he works with almost exclusively. We chose to give Dennis the plans that I've been drawing up over the last few years and let him go to work on those.
Since we had the floor plans so far along already, his first goal was to get a front elevation that we liked. After he did that he went to work on tweaking the floor plans.
After a week and a half we had 3 versions of the floor plans to look at. All of them we the same except for a few changes to each.
As it sits right now, Robin and I have been sitting on the floor plans. We're really liking the last version he gave us, but I just haven't had the time to call him and set up a meeting to talk with him about it yet. As soon as we can do that then he'll throw together a rough layout of a basement plan (in case we are able to finish that off at the time of construction) and we'll be on our way.
Once that happens then we'll take the plan set to Scott for pricing and compare that to Dennis' pricing numbers. We're also looking into putting our new home into the fall Parade of Homes next year as an option as well.
We're currently hoping to begin construction in spring (once the weight limits come off the roads) with completion about August, and are thinking about putting our current house up for sale some time in Feb. of next year.
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