Hope you will post some more here about your experiences. I for one would love to hear what you’ve done and how things worked out for you. (And what didn’t!)
Did you use an architect? If so, how did you go about picking them? Do they bill based on a percent of construction costs or a flat fee rate? How much help were they when dealing with the city? Did they try to sell you a lot of “interior decorator” services too? Did you have a good idea of what you wanted when you went into the project or was this something where they provided a lot of the design and ideas?
Do you have a construction company overseeing everything, or maybe a general contractor, or maybe you’re doing it all. How much time has this taken?
Are you doing a lot of foundation work, or is that a pretty small part of the job? What style is the house? Where do you see most of the costs coming from?
Anyway, want to really encourage you to either do your own blog, or to post more here about your experiences. Yes we want to hear about it!
