Onto the bank!
Posted on | March 24, 2009 |
I met with Cam from A Cut Above today. They’re the local Lindal Cedar Homes dealer, based out of the old Ron’s Army Navy building in Burnside.
Turkel Design Lindal TD1 2400 rendering
Cam and his business partner met me out at our lot last week. He agrees that it’s the perfect lot for a modern, environmentally designed house.
And today, he delivered. A quote that is well within what we think we can afford. Obviously, we haven’t met with our bank yet, so this may still be a pipe dream, but it seems like it should be possible. Cam worked with Joel Turkel of Turkel Designs and Lindal to look for areas to cut cost to bring the house in line with where we want to be. They changed things like siding (not a huge concern), windows from cedar to colour-keyed vinyl windows (still good quality), got rid of the cedar ceiling liner (I wanted to do that anyway) and a doable, if tight budget for heating, bathroom appliances and cabinetry. We’re bargainers so I think we can make this work.
All told, A Cut Above beat our price by $6,000.
Now, I just need to meet with the bank and see if this is even possible. The house is just what we wanted:
- energy efficient, passive solar design
- built on an engineered slab
- funky and different
- architecturally designed
- tons of windows (41!) and light
- open concept living space with kitchen
- still has a fireplace, but we’d go propane just for atmosphere. We love our current propane fireplace.
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March 24th, 2009 @ 8:35 pm
Jeff, where are you building? I’ve got a love for interesting architecture. Seems like you do too, you should check out Grand Designs sometime a UK show: http://www.channel4.com/4homes/on-tv/grand-designs/
March 24th, 2009 @ 8:42 pm
Hey Steve, our lot is in Three Brooks in Hubley. Exit 4 off the 103 highway.
Some seriously cool stuff in there. Thanks for the link.
March 24th, 2009 @ 9:00 pm
Cool Jeff, I hope it works out for you, looks like a nice house.