Waiting and planning

I guess it's been sort of a "blessing in disguise" that our house is taking a long time to sell, because we are still tweaking our building plans and coming up with new ideas for our land. My husband has been using a cad drawing program for the floorplan ideas. It helps a lot to be able to really see the plans on the computer screen. Then we can put things like furniture and appliances in the drawing to see how everything will actually fit and how good the "flow" of the plan is.

During this waiting period, we have also taken advantage of many deals on used building materials. For instance, we picked up two van loads full of used lumber from a wood chicken house that was dismantled. We have bought four doors and four windows for 1/10th the price of what we would have paid for new ones, and they are in great shape overall.

So we'll continue plugging away, waiting until our current house sells, but coming up with more ideas and finding more deals in the meantime.