dreamcometrue
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I think DCT meant our new house on the part deux thread!
We built our house, broke ground on DS's first birthday, so we have been in it for 14 years. It was so fun picking out everything. We were on the "do it yourself" kick for a lot of things, so we stained all the woodwork ourselves, put the yard in ourselves, did some little things like screw the handles on the kitchen cupboards. We had the walls plastered, and I have still only painted the family room, dining room, our bedroom. Everything else is still white plaster. We really didn't have any big problems with the build. We are pretty easygoing folk. A few years after we build, DH put the pool in. Himself! An inground one. He is a HR manager, not a contractor, but it was something he thought he could do. It is great!
yes, I did mean the other thread!
I wish we could build our own house. We bought our first house in 1996, it was a small 3 bedroom and I loved that house. We just moved in this house 2 summers ago, it's much bigger with a inground pool in a super nice neighborhood. We kept the old house and are renting it out now. I couldn't part with it. A few years ago, we were THIS close to building a home in Texas. I mean, we were a day away from signing the papers. We could have sold our house here in SoCal (this was still our old house), and bought a 3,700 sq. house, on 2 acres, with a pool and everything, in Texas and never had a mortgage. Scary thought huh? 
But we chickened out, neither one of us really wanted to leave California.All the new developments here, we don't really like. They all have such small backyards, unless you want to pay 1.5 mio. Plus, it seems like they all have HOA that really limit what you can do, and some charge up to $500 a month!!
