We are Building!

(We are planning on having cream shakes in the gables, green siding, and red brick)

We are officially building our first home! It has been a long few months making a ton of decisions and going through several different options, but we have finally made it. Last night we signed all of the papers for our construction loan and we will begin next week! We are really trying to get the house done before December 1 so we can get the $8,000.00, cross your fingers!

It all began one night sometime last spring semester, I was bored with my homework so I decided to look for fun at homes for sale in the area. I started getting updates on what houses went up for sale and Ben and I started thinking seriously about buying a home. After going and looking through a few homes we decided they weren't really what we were looking for or in the areas we wanted. We started meeting with builders and looking for a lot. We considered having my brother Dan build it but found that it would be too difficult to get a construction loan with this economy. We signed on with another builder and didn't feel right about it after a while. We began to research more seriously about the process of getting a construction loan and we found out that we could pull a few strings and actually get a construction loan. Dan had some awesome house plans and it all just fell into place. We feel so blessed to have this opportunity and we are so grateful for all of Dan and Rob's help to make this entire thing a reality.

Below is the main floor, this is all we will finish for now
(if you click on the pictures you can see the layout better)

The entire upstairs is a bonus level, we will have a temporary door and wall at the top of the stairs until we finish it

We will have a walk-out basement since the water table is so high in Nibley, this is where our future theater will be :)