What We’ve Been Up To

Once we started living full-time at the ranch, regular life got tired of taking a back seat to the new house and started to demand more attention a little sooner than we thought it should, and it has taken us a little longer to get all those loose ends taken care of. There are plenty …

Would We Use Them Again? Which Businesses Made the Cut

Overall, we are very pleased with how our home turned out. It has been a long and sometimes stressful process, but now that we've been living in the house for a few weeks, we thought we'd share some thoughts on our experiences with subs. Mostly it was a good process, with only a few hiccups. …

In Hindsight, Would We Still Have Used a Cost-Plus Contract?

Absolutely. We had the choice between builders using a cost-plus approach and builders giving us a fixed bid (this post explains it a bit). There is more at risk for us in a cost-plus bid, but because we had some unconventional stuff planned for our house (HVAC craziness, no wall texture, flat roof, etc.), our …