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Designing Your Own Dream Home for the New Home Builder:
What is your dream home? Do you have an idea of what it will look like? Defining a dream home is very difficult, especially if you have a spouse or significant other that has tastes different than your own. Although you might be able to agree on a floor plan, do you both agree on what the purposes for each of the rooms? My solution to this matter is simple. Brain storm together. Make it fun! After all it’s your dream that you are talking about. Privately each of you collect floor plan ideas from other sources, and prioritize what you like. List the top 10 bedroom floor plans, bathroom floor plans, kitchen floor plans and of course the floor plan layout styles.

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If you haven’t already, go back and read the previous article, “Don’t Buy That Material List” and learn it’s primary lesson: Only Local Costs Count. If you’re trying to figure out how much it might cost to build a house from the plans you’re considering purchasing then you should tattoo that statement onto your forehead. Don’t rely on Internet pricing…only local costs count.

Square Foot Pricing…Handle With Care!

When evaluating the costs of building a new home, many homeowners use square foot pricing as a basis for comparison. Let’s talk about square foot pricing for a minute - what it is and what it isn’t.

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Lots of house plan websites and plan books offer to prepare a “materials list” for you - and for about thirty bucks some will even calculate a “cost to build” the house plan you’ve chosen.

But where does that cost information come from, and how useful is it? Can you rely on Internet material lists or cost estimating for your house project?

Local Cost Estimating

A homebuilder spends days, sometimes weeks, putting together a cost estimate for a new home project. The estimate has to be accurate because the builder may be competing against other bidders for the project, and because he’s going to offer the homeowner a contract to build the house based on it.

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