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I haven't actually started. But I'm spending a lot of money on rent at the moment, our living expenses are easily more expensive than just buying a house. A NICE house.
I've been waiting for the right moment and I think this is it. I've just got this new job (I started in a new one less than 6 months ago but it sucks so I decided I'd quit it since they weren't ready to up the ante) that pays very well. Also, it comes with nice benefits like the ability to get loans for houses with no interest issued by banks (marginals, etc.). So, two things going my way: high salary + best possible loan that could be had (no bank fees, no bank interest).
On top of that, my dad is a retired contractor and is bored, wants to build it himself. I asked for a price, he said "If I can get a cup of coffee every now and then", meaning I won't be paying any side cost but of course something, I won't let my old man break a sweat for nothing even if he wants to do it just for the sake of it.
That leaves me with buying land and buying building materials. Plus all the designing, permits and that stuff.
I already know where I'm going to buy land, it'll be about 2000m2, that's about 6500 square feet for you dirty murricans. I'm still out for the... floor plan itself, but I'm thinking I'll get the maximum bang for the buck and build a big basement, and not 2 floors but 1.5 floors. So that's 2.5 floors altogether. The first floor (or 1.5 floors for the high ceiling and something tricky built with that) will be about 180m2 (about 600 square feet), and basement probably about 100m2.
So what about you designers of mad ideas? We're a family of 2 adults and two small kids (a baby and a toddler). We'll have a large yard with that as well so that should be used for something great. So far what we want is:
Basement. SUPERCITIZEN AREA: "movie theater", so that's maybe HD projector?? What do we have these days for home theater solutions? I want one with great chance to check out movies and sports, plus play video games. Also, probably laundry machines there as well. Some games as well, a pool table. But this will be my mancave and I have no idea what to put there except the obvious, movie and gaming stuff. Any ideas? Experience?
Then, for the actual house and first floor:
We need two rooms for the kids. We need kitchen and a diner, living room and probably a guest room, study and ... at least two bathrooms, adn at least one bedroom. We want walk-in closet, one big one for the both of us.
What else do we need? Any ideas?
I want to have technology embedded as much as possible, what should I be looking into? What kind of cool things are there to be bought?
Any great home solutions in general, where could I get some ideas? Pictures, designing?
We'll probably have our own little garden for vegetables, we're sort of into that and do it already for some herbs and we want veggies as well. We also want to build a big terrace so we can do some BBQ and hanging out.
I've been waiting for the right moment and I think this is it. I've just got this new job (I started in a new one less than 6 months ago but it sucks so I decided I'd quit it since they weren't ready to up the ante) that pays very well. Also, it comes with nice benefits like the ability to get loans for houses with no interest issued by banks (marginals, etc.). So, two things going my way: high salary + best possible loan that could be had (no bank fees, no bank interest).
On top of that, my dad is a retired contractor and is bored, wants to build it himself. I asked for a price, he said "If I can get a cup of coffee every now and then", meaning I won't be paying any side cost but of course something, I won't let my old man break a sweat for nothing even if he wants to do it just for the sake of it.
That leaves me with buying land and buying building materials. Plus all the designing, permits and that stuff.
I already know where I'm going to buy land, it'll be about 2000m2, that's about 6500 square feet for you dirty murricans. I'm still out for the... floor plan itself, but I'm thinking I'll get the maximum bang for the buck and build a big basement, and not 2 floors but 1.5 floors. So that's 2.5 floors altogether. The first floor (or 1.5 floors for the high ceiling and something tricky built with that) will be about 180m2 (about 600 square feet), and basement probably about 100m2.
So what about you designers of mad ideas? We're a family of 2 adults and two small kids (a baby and a toddler). We'll have a large yard with that as well so that should be used for something great. So far what we want is:
Basement. SUPERCITIZEN AREA: "movie theater", so that's maybe HD projector?? What do we have these days for home theater solutions? I want one with great chance to check out movies and sports, plus play video games. Also, probably laundry machines there as well. Some games as well, a pool table. But this will be my mancave and I have no idea what to put there except the obvious, movie and gaming stuff. Any ideas? Experience?
Then, for the actual house and first floor:
We need two rooms for the kids. We need kitchen and a diner, living room and probably a guest room, study and ... at least two bathrooms, adn at least one bedroom. We want walk-in closet, one big one for the both of us.
What else do we need? Any ideas?
I want to have technology embedded as much as possible, what should I be looking into? What kind of cool things are there to be bought?
Any great home solutions in general, where could I get some ideas? Pictures, designing?
We'll probably have our own little garden for vegetables, we're sort of into that and do it already for some herbs and we want veggies as well. We also want to build a big terrace so we can do some BBQ and hanging out.
But now that I've lived all over the planet after that? 
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