She Says

Ok where to start? It seems as if Brad has gone over everything so far. But now for the girl’s point of view.
Like Brad said we didn’t intentionally start looking for houses, it just happened. Once we started leaning to building our own, I got to go around work asking everyone who had a similar square footage what their utility bills were. Everyone was very helpful and once we did the math we realized we could do it.
Speaking of advice, everyone likes to share their thoughts on building a house. At first I got really nervous after many people said “yea, I built a house, and I would never do it again,” “It’s a true test of a relationship,” or “lots of decisions to be made.” Well people were right, but it’s all been good so far. (yes, yes I know they haven’t even dug the hole yet, but we have made a lot of decisions).
I am proud to report that surprising as it may be, Brad and I agreeing on pretty much everything. We spend our weekends wondering around the tile shop (pretty sure they think we are moving in to their store), the cabinet shop, granite, paint, home depot….. We have also been researching during the week. Because I am off work (for one more day) I have been doing most of the driving around during the week and meeting with the different consultants, while Brad does what he is best at….surfing the web. I cannot believe how helpful “Google Search Images” has been. We have been collecting lots of pictures of things that we love and using them to find exactly what we want. Brad spends countless hours doing his searches, and then he sends me his top ones. Saves me a lot of time (seeing as I have a short attention span foe some things).
So it has been over a month since we signed and I think it is just starting to sink in that we are building a house. And every day I love it more and I am confident that we have made the right decision!