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Okay, it’s been a little while since I have updated you on our new build. Things have been happening behind the scenes, I promise. We are still working with Clayton on finalizing our floor plan and we have started going section by section of the exterior and working on materials and other details. We also were able to walk the site with him a few weeks ago while we was in town from Utah and you can now watch that video on my YouTube channel. We are hoping to submit our plans to engineering by the end of the month. If you want to get caught up on this project from the start you can head to this post or just head to the last post.
One of the biggest decisions that we have had to make over the last couple of months is who to work with as our builder for our new home. As you might know, we thought about self building the home. Which means that we would have general contracted the build ourselves. We would have needed to have someone build the shell of the home and then we would manage all of the subcontractors ourselves. We thought that this would save us time and money. Here are the reasons we decided to not go this route:
After thinking through those things a little bit more, we decided to contact a few local custom home builders. I wanted to interview 3 builders. I feel like it was the right number for us to know that we were making the correct decision. We interviewed 2 builders close together and we knew who we liked between the two of them. And then we wanted to talk with one more builder to solidify that our decision and our instinct was correct and to make sure that the numbers and timelines were about the same across the board. After our third builder meeting, we knew for sure that Rafterhouse was who we wanted to work with. So…meet our design and build team – Rafterhouse!
Rafterhouse has been building homes pretty much as long as we have been flipping homes. Their quality and craftsmanship is incredible! I have been following along with them on social media for years and years. They started working in an area of Phoenix called Arcadia and it’s this pocket of homes with charm and character and I have always been drawn to their work. But besides their amazing work, we were so impressed with Austin and his team. Every interaction left us more and more comfortable that we made the right decision. Here are a few reasons that we chose to work with them:
Check out some of their projects below! We have our design intake meeting with them next month, so until then I will be working on design concepts for each space and really narrowing down the style and look that I want to see inside the house. I’m super excited to get started on this!!
I can’t wait to fill you in more as the design and build process progresses!!
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But first an update… Okay, it’s been a little while since I have updated you on our new build. Things have been happening behind the scenes, I promise. We are still working with Clayton on finalizing our floor plan and we have started going section by section of the exterior and working on materials and […]
Did anyone else have to google “what is the design development phase?” Just me?? Lol! When our architect emailed us and said we were moving into this phase of our design, I got really excited. But I definitely had to look it up. Basically what this means is that we are now refining all of […]
Finally sharing the atrium house flip with you!! I started sharing this project with you all on Instagram last September. I remember when I first walked it with my husband and my cousin who was going to be the project manager and finding out that we were going to keep the atrium…in the middle of […]
designing a kitchen layout is hard If you remember from my last post , we have had a few design meetings with our architect and we are coming along really quickly on a lot of our floor plan. Right now the area that we are working on most right now is the kitchen. It’s turning […]
Working on a floor plan Wow, you guys! We are now a few meetings with our architect into this design and build project for our new home and it’s so exciting to start to see elements of the home come together. As I mentioned in my Instagram stories this morning, I am struggling with how […]
We had our first design meeting! If you remember, we are building a new home! You can read that introduction post here. Gah!! Sometimes, I still cannot believe that is happening. I am beyond excited! And to add to the excitement, we had our first design meeting with our architect, Clayton Vance, a couple of […]
This A Frame has my heart! Back in May of last year, we took a little field trip to see a flip in Black Canyon City, our Flagstaff vacation rental, a Flagstaff flip and this Munds Park A Frame cabin. The minute I drove up, I fell in love. I love A Frame cabins. I […]
introducing our new home… Well, kind of!! We bought land and we are starting the process of building a new home for our family and I could not be more excited. But I feel like I am getting ahead of myself. Let’s go back a few months and I will tell you how this all […]
i’m so excited to share this lower arcadia flip with you! Over months and months, I have shared this flip project in the lower Arcadia area of Phoenix in my Instagram stories, but now it’s making its blog debut. This home got a complete renovation makeover – we took walls down, closed in windows, rearranged […]
I could not love this cabin more! This Pine, AZ cabin project was years in the making…like literally over 2 years. That is longest I have had to wait for a project to be completed. We had a lot of set backs with permits and weather and just straight up pushing this project off to […]
A new vacation rental up north! https://blissfuldesignstudio.com/pine-cabin-making-some-progress/Some of you may know that we have multiple vacation rental properties in Scottsdale, AZ. You can see those here! We do have one other vacation rental that is in Pine, AZ (hopefully two soon!). You can see the last post I did about our cabin in Pine here. […]
FINALLY!! The moment you, me, my kids and for sure my husband have all been waiting for! The room makeover of my kids’ playroom is complete and I love how it turned out! The Spring 2021 One Room Challenge in Partnership with Better Homes & Garden started 8 weeks ago and there were times that […]
We are so close to being done with the Spring 2021 One Room Challenge in Partnership with Better Homes & Garden!? It’s Week 7 and that means we are down to final touches and realizing what dream items aren’t actually going to happen in time. Haha! You up on what has been going on over […]
How in the word are we already at week 6 of the Spring 2021 One Room Challenge in Partnership with Better Homes & Garden!? If you are just now finding me, then welcome! Last week’s post can catch you up on what has been going on over the last few weeks in this kids’ playroom […]
It’s week 5 of the Spring 2021 One Room Challenge in Partnership with Better Homes & Garden! You can catch up on last week’s post if you want to see what has been going on so far in this kids’ playroom makeover. This week, we have made some progress in the One Room Challenge. We […]