People who build their own home tend to be very courageous. These people are curious about life. They’re thinking about what it means to live in a house, rather than just buying a commodity and making it work.
Tom Kundig
THE FIRST EIGHT STEPS
If you’re wanting to design a new home and not sure where to start, this is the guide for you!
This course will take you through eight steps you MUST take before you design your new home so that you can be sure you design the house of your dreams. With it you’ll get:
- The e-Book: Eight assignments that, when completed, you’ll have all the information you need to start designing your dream home.
- Reference Sheets and Worksheets to help you with your assignments, with Excel and Word worksheet files included.
- Grid Sheet: Print this out and use to create simple room diagrams as part of your assignments.
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ULTIMATE NEW HOME PROJECT BUDGET
Most of us don’t know where to start when it comes to budgeting a new home project. This eBook will allow you to create a realistic budget for YOUR project based on easy-to-obtain resources in your area.
Included in the book are:
- 9 sections covering different components of a project budget to help you understand what costs go into your project budget.
- A Preliminary Project Budget Worksheet to guide you through the project budget step-by-step.
- An Affordability Worksheet to help you determine if you can afford the home you want.
In addition to the eBook you get two additional items!
- ‘Budgeting By Design Phase’ – an overview of different types of budgets to use for each phase of your project, from a “back-of-the-envelope” first pass to a fully-detailed budget covering all components of your new house design.
- ‘Project Budget Formats by Design Phase’ – the companion collection of providing format examples for each phase of the project from Pre-design through Construction Documents. You can print them out for your use or use as a guide for your own documents.
