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Thinking about moving to a bigger house, nothing floats our boat as such. I would love to build our "forever home"
Obviously design costs, materials, labour, utilities, land etc have to be taken into account. Would it be cheaper in the bigger picture than buying a similar sized house already built?
talk to me about your experiences
Yes built my own house
Yes built a house for life for around 20-30% less than it would have buying a pre-existing house.
Yes, it's probably one of the most satisfying things Ive ever done.
BUT
I worked on site 3-6 days a week
I did all specification, ordering and project management as well. It takes good planning and vision. We lost less than half a day over the course of 11 months build to delayed delivery of materials.
Although we have no need of another house, Id love to build one more but it would probably be a prefab german house that I designed and done groundworks for next time.