Building My Dream Home

I have long wanted to build my own dream home. After many discussions with my wife, she is totally on board with this idea. We would like to move into our home and stay there... forever. Well, that's our hope anyway. Often you spend months looking for the perfect home, but there are always things you like about one better than the other. It just makes sense to design it ourselves.

This would allow us to get the floorplan we want, have it be energy efficient, and focus on the things that matter most to us. When we were married family and God were what it was all about. To us our lives should be no different from what we envisioned for our wedding. Our home then should be no different as it is a part of our lives - a big part!

Home conventions are not for unconventional people like my wife and I. We want something that is unique. If someone came to my home and saw that I have a 2, 3, or 4 stair cases then they would not be surprised. They would say, "this house is so you." And it wouldn't just be stair cases, it would be the respect for the earth, the energy efficiency, the garden, the face that everything would have a place built for it so you aren't cramming things in. It would have meaning and purpose. And someday when I am on my deathbed I would want to be comfortable in my own bed in my home that served me well.

I know I want this home to embody all these things, but they are feelings. I can only evoke the feelings I want to feel from my future home by experimenting with designs. Certain things will just hit me. Down below is a picture of what I have at this moment; it definitely will change. There are things about this design that fit, that make sense to me. But there are things I know that are off, and it's because of feelings I have regarding it.

By the time we get ready to build this home we will have kids. Their opinions will be so important! I can't wait to see the final product, but it's a process that will require time, patience, family, God, and TRUST!