Building the White House

Designing and building an environmentally-sustainable home.

Lindal Cedar home or stay where we are?

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 the $50k for our lot. [...]

In a better place today

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 look at alternatives, or maybe [...]

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