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October 2009

What will it cost? Pricing underway for our green house in Houston

We are now in the "quiet" phase of getting our house priced by our builder, Michael Strong of Green Haus Builders (
www.greenhausbuilders.com). We just received the pricing drawings, which contain enough information for Michael to make his estimate. Then we will talk about what needs to come out or what we can add in. And this will trigger our application for the financing, too.

These plans show our very much final layout. Take a look:



A few things have shifted, but the broad plans have staid the same for a while now. 

The next step for us is to work on the selection list - Michael will send us a spread sheet of all the things we need to buy to put into the house - from lamps, to fixtures, sinks etc etc. Of course, this will also feed into the pricing. 

It promises to be a busy and exciting second half of October!

(P.S. Sorry if you have received this multiple times as a tweet or posterous update - had some trouble with the attached pdf which was too large - now put the plans in as jpgs.)

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Posted by Oliver Bogler 

Cool video of 3-D model of our green house in Houston

We had our last pre-pricing meeting today, going over the schematics and to see our model!! So the plans are essentially complete - I will post more when we have pdfs of the final versions, after final tweaks. In the meantime, we got to see the 3-D model of the house, which really brings the shape home - we like it alot - very compact, efficient and (we think) pleasing.

Take a look:

Now, the plans are on the way to our builder, for pricing. We will turn our attention to selecting things - hardware, fixtures etc - to participate in this process.

In a month or so, we'll have the numbers, and it will be time to work on financing.

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Posted by Oliver Bogler