Your home will most likely be your largest investment in your lifetime and for that reason most people want to make sure they get it right. Lots of folks wish to have a new home, a brand new that no one has ever lived in before.

Well this makes a lot of sense of course and yet how can you possibly find the best one which you are suited for? Sometimes people decide to move into a different scenario and that is to build there new home their way literally from the ground up. Of course this takes time and patience.

First they decide on a rough sketch of what they want and go thru hundreds of floor plans trying to find something remotely similar to what they want. Next they look for a raw piece of land to put their home on, perhaps a hill with a view or in a specific area in which they might like to live the rest of their life and then retire?

From then on it is a costly endeavor as they find an architect and attempt to get their plans submitted and approved. Next comes the hassle, stress and compromises of costs, contractors, planning department approvals and let me tell you it is enough to throw marriages into turmoil and make you want to pull your hair out.

But if you are committed to the process and patient you are now on your way and along the way you will see that everything costs twice as much as you thought and takes three times as long to get accomplished. So, please consider all this in 2006, if you are considering building your own home.