http://buildingthewhitehouse.com Designing and building an environmentally-sustainable home. Thu, 14 May 2009 22:55:57 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en You can view our listing with Wayne Cochrane, our Exit Optimum realtor, right here. It's with a heavy heart that I post this, but we've decided to put our lot up for sale. This isn't what we wanted to do. But, the options weren't really working in our favour and it ... http://buildingthewhitehouse.com/2009/05/our-lot-at-60-three-brooks-drive-is-up-for-sale/ We bought our land at 60 Three Brooks Drive almost a year ago now. In that time, we've been through everything from designing a 'dream' house, to downsizing this ideal, to pricing this out, to looking at kit houses. At long last, we found a house that we felt we ... http://buildingthewhitehouse.com/2009/04/looks-like-were-at-the-end-of-the-line/ 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.  [caption id="attachment_163" align="alignnone" width="400" caption="Turkel Design Lindal TD1 2400 rendering"][/caption] Cam and his business partner met me out at our lot last week. He agrees ... http://buildingthewhitehouse.com/2009/03/onto-the-bank/ So, here we are. We've exhausted the custom architect-designed route. Still waiting for that second quote, but I'll give you the range of the first one: $500-600,000. Yeah, it blew my mind too. Especially since we had given our max budget as $300,000. The quote was under $500k with HST, plus ... http://buildingthewhitehouse.com/2009/03/lindal-cedar-home-or-stay-where-we-are/ My wife and I have been spending a ton of time over the last few days lamenting where we went wrong with this project and what we should do from here. Our conversations (ok, occasionally fights) have ranged from "let's just sell it and get the hell out", to "let's ... http://buildingthewhitehouse.com/2009/03/in-a-better-place-today/ Wow, what an eye opener this project is turning into. In total, I think we approached five builders to ask them about looking into our project. One turned us down via email before even looking at it (maybe this site scared him off? I dunno). One turned us down after ... http://buildingthewhitehouse.com/2009/03/reality-check/