Top Ten Things to Know Before You Build

If you've ever considered building a home, you are in for the best time of your life. To be able to build your home will be so meaningful to you--especially throughout the different steps of the process. From the initial decision to selecting a builder, to the floor plan selection, interior details, and exterior, it's filled with the most exhilarating moments, and yes, the most stressful moments, too.

When Chris and I decided to build our home, we toured the model once, and we knew that we wanted our home to be similar and that a new build was right for us. When all is said and done with a fixer-upper, (as much as I wanted to channel my inner Joanna Gaines) with our work schedules and the housing market near us, it would have ended up costing way more to fix up an old house than it was to just build it how we wanted in the first place.