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it’s just the beginning..

i’ve started this post to document our adventure designing and building a conceptually progressive house on a very difficult site.  stay tuned for more…

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7 Responses to “it’s just the beginning..”

  1. a dougherty Says:
    January 23rd, 2009 at 10:22 am

    wewhoo! wait….what spare time are you talking about?

  2. Camille Says:
    January 23rd, 2009 at 5:25 pm

    Whaoo! Can’t wait to see what this hill looks like.

  3. BJ Clark Says:
    January 24th, 2009 at 4:01 pm

    Excellent. Can’t wait to see more.

  4. Dan Says:
    January 27th, 2009 at 11:49 am

    This will be fun to watch the progress.

  5. Mother In Law Says:
    February 3rd, 2009 at 9:10 am

    It sounds wonderful and I have the utmost confidence in our Architect(s). I can’t wait to move in next door to our Grandsons. No pressure at all. Thanks!

  6. Jane Prophet Says:
    March 4th, 2009 at 3:00 am

    Interesting to follow your project. We are about to move from UK to buy land a nd build as green as possible. Are you planning to publish your costs? The bloggers doing so are so helpful as lots of us are trying to work ut what kind of green build we can afford!

    This is one such blog
    http://www.greenmodernkits.com/c3prototype.htm

  7. darin Says:
    March 4th, 2009 at 4:36 am

    Jane,

    Good question! One that I’ve been wondering myself. The problem I have with publishing prices is, due to the nature of my business and my existing relationships with vendors, I’m able to get trade pricing plus a little extra discount for the amount of business I’ve been giving these guys over the years. For instance, I have pricing on two different window systems and the bids are about 50% less than what they typically would be. I don’t feel sharing this information would be an accurate representation of real construction costs.

    I can tell you we’re building a 3,300 s.f. house on a steep lot for under $500k. Taking my discount out of the equation, the same house would probably be in the $700k-$800k range.

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