Seven steps you should follow to build your house

Whether you building a new house or renovating an existing house, Building a new home is like a journey of discovering who we are, what we want, how we want to live and where we want to live. It is a better chance for us to determine our relationship with the community and to our family. As with any journey, we all should do some research and plan our trip accordingly. We all should have a sense of what would be the result and how much cost it will occur. For making a perfect trip, we all need an experienced guide to show the way to enjoy and enrich the overall journey.

So, let us look at the steps in sequential order involving in building a home.

1. Set objectives.

Building a new home is not a simple task it is a hectic job and for making it easy, we have to prepare goals and have to take specific measures to achieve those goals. We have to make sure that those goals are attainable and practical so that you can set those goals.

Objectives setting requires satisfying our financial and personal needs. So we have to list our objectives in such a way that it has to be practical and possible. Each objective is important and each needs to be identified so that the result will be fruitful.

Here are some questions that rises while setting the objectives:

• What cost will incur in building a home?
• Where should we build our home?
• Can it be achievable?
• What do we want to achieve?
• Does this plan make any sense?
• If not, what is the next plan?

By setting objectives accordingly, a goal statement is what home construction contractors refer to it as a program.

2. Set a budget.

While a budget should be in any objectives, it is an important piece of the project that it is included here as a separate job. While preparing our budget we have to begin with what we can afford and check how the cost of our home fits in with our overall plans for the future. While we are ready to note down the details, we have to include everything that goes with the project. That is the cost of the land, design and engineering fees, local fees and taxes, construction of the home and the landscape and decoration and furniture.

3. Find some property or an old house.

While looking for the property there are many questions that arise like how do we want to live. Where do we want to live? What we are looking for? Do we want to live in a state area or urban area?

The point is we have to find a spot in the area that we can claim that plot our own and build a home at that spot. Maybe that land is not a few acres that are never crushed o. Maybe an existing house is just old and neglected for many years.

4. Gather a team.

Gathering a team of true professionals from home construction companies at work is better to approach rather than appointing a bunch of labor who does not have any knowledge of work. We have to trust our single large investment on our house project to an experienced team that will not be interested in our money.

An architect or builders are going to be our most valuable team members. These people will act as a therapist, guide, advocate and a counselor throughout our journey in fulfilling the dream of the project. In addition, as with the good working professionals and the right guide, we can guarantee that the journey will be more pleasant. As you start your journey, you will likely want to add many members to the team. An interior designer and certainly a landscape architect who should not be the last person select on this project before all the money is wasted.

5. Make a blueprint of the home.

Every large or small project that we work on has had one thing in familiar. The owner, whether he might be a private employee or a government agency or a corporate entity know the value of planning the project in particular before starting to build a house. These owners know that changing the plan on paper is a whole lot easier and cheaper than changing the plan after they are built. To begin with the robust design and planning phase.

6. Accept the unpreventable.

You have made your plans, got permission from the municipality, and collected the money for the project. Now the only thing left is to build our house. As we have accounted for everything, so it should run as smooth as possible. Right?

However, it will not happen as we think, odd stuff happens. It depends on how our team and we handle or react to these hurdles will be important. My advice is to stay cool and work with your team to solve the issues by sharing the ideas with an architect, a builder, and other team members so that there will not be clashes while doing the work. Finish the project as a team in time.

7. Enjoy your new home.

As you have worked hard and spent more money to build your home so it is time to enjoy maximum in the house. Celebrate in the way of light falls across the room and see how it is with the seasonal changes. Find unexpected places to talk with your family and find how this place gives shape to your life and allows you to become the person you never been. In the end, you will be surprised that your new home is so much more than the sum of living rooms, bedrooms and so on. It is the place we call our home and make it uniquely yours.