Going In A New Direction

So, what happens when you open your eyes to see that your absolute dream home is up for grabs and within your reach? You find out that because it is so old it won’t pass any sort of inspection for a loan that you can actually afford… So upsetting… It was eye opening though. We realized that we didn’t have to continue to settle for a house that is what we need but not necessarily what we want. With the way that the market is now, we can actually afford to get what we want! Everything started going downhill from there…

Most people would probably be driven away from trying to buy a new house once they realize that the absolute dream house is not quite as within their reach as they thought. Nothing else would compare. Nothing really does compare to an antebellum mansion built by a Civil War hero in 1854. Any other house is in a category of its own. Instead of buying Woodlawn, we decided to go a different direction and build one. With minimal help from our real estate parachuter, I mean agent, I set it all up to build a house in a nice, quiet subdivision in Grovetown. I did not know there were so many properties for sale right now, and I was definitely not prepared for how expensive it is to build a custom house… Another bummer…

Originally we were looking to buy a good-sized chunk of land and building a house very similar to Woodlawn (but smaller of course) and then we would still have our dream house. Do the same style and everything with the columns, the front porch, the formal rooms, and everything, only it would all be brand new instead of 150 years old and in need of repair. If I were being truly honest with myself though, we were trying to force it…

Things always turn out for the best though, because after meeting with the builder that our real estate friend pushed on us, we went to look at a house in a neighborhood about a mile from where we are now, and though we liked the neighborhood and the way the house was put together, the house itself was lacking some things. We wanted a formal living, formal dining, family room, kitchen, breakfast nook, and at least 4 bedrooms and 3 bathrooms. Since we liked the work they do, we went to the model home and looked through some plans and found the one that we really liked, and picked out our lot.

Next phase…