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Build My House

Purpose

I'm building a house for my family! Since we have so little experience with what makes a house a 'good' home, we've been asking others for their input. This wiki is an attempt to sort out the ideas, knowledge, experience, and technology that has been suggested and discussed.

Questions

We've asked many people the following specific questions:

1. What would you change about your house if you could? Or more specifically, what would you change that is easier to do at the start than it is to retrofit later?
   • Do Differently
2. Assuming unlimited “dreaming” budget, what would you build into a custom designed house?
   • Dream House
3. Any new or old homebuilding technology that I should really look into?
   • Building Technology
4. What would you do with 10 acres of land?
   • Land Ideas
5. Any construction tips, tricks, and other resources?
   • Tips And Tricks

If you'd like to participate, feel free to add comments to the bottom of this page, or any other page on the wiki.

Idea Categories

• Accessibility Idea
• Comfort Idea
• Convenience Idea
• Efficiency Idea
• Green Idea
• Landscape Idea
• Layout Idea
• Save Money Idea
• Save Time Idea
• Ideas My Kids Have About The House

Progress

We're still collecting ideas and requirements, as we prepare the land for construction next year.

Service Info

Completed tasks

• Get house ready to sell http://ubasics.com/house/
• Put house on MLS and other listing services http://ubasics.com/house/
• We've closed on the land.
• Have township assign a Street Address to the land
• Driveway permit

Next Steps

• Complete sale of house – please check out the webpage and virtual tour >> http://ubasics.com/house/ and let others know about it.
• Perk testing
• Septic field (ideally, cheap) or sewage treatment system
• Well
• House

Thanks!

Thanks to everyone that has helped with this! It's amazing what suggestions people have made that resonate with us, and we're so glad to have involved so many people in the design of our home. Hopefully you will find this as valuable a resource as we have.

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Adam Davis
Raelyn Davis
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