If you have every built a new house, you probably know all about the design center phase. We are building our 3rd house so we have had some experience in this arena. As exciting as it might sound picking out the complete interior design of your new home, it’s also quite overwhelming. So many of the decisions you make are based on very small sample size pieces of fabric, carpet, granite, or stone. For instance, picking out the brick and stone for the exterior of our home was difficult to say the least. It wasn’t difficult picking the color of the brick we like or the type of stone, what...

So we decided that it was time to sell our house and build a larger one not far from where we currently call home. Of course both my husband and I hate the idea of moving, not because it’s not exciting, it’s definitely a rush to go and find a new home or in our case build a new one! The dread comes from the process itself. Did I mention that when we decide to do something, we don’t believe in taking our time, we rush to get everything done in a matter of days or weeks? So brainstorming one night we realized that we could get out of debt, have a home closer to the freeway which would...