Comments on: The Story of Shambles Manor (an exercise in owner-building) https://shambolicliving.com/2012/04/20/the-story-of-shambles-manor-an-exercise-in-owner-building/ Mon, 30 Apr 2012 06:13:23 +0000 hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=7.0 By: shambolicliving https://shambolicliving.com/2012/04/20/the-story-of-shambles-manor-an-exercise-in-owner-building/#comment-3549 Mon, 30 Apr 2012 06:13:23 +0000 http://shambolicliving.wordpress.com/?p=1357#comment-3549 In reply to ChrystinaNoel.

Alright, I’ll get some pictures together just for you. I obviously needed to consult with you two years ago, before the cost blowouts.

]]> By: shambolicliving https://shambolicliving.com/2012/04/20/the-story-of-shambles-manor-an-exercise-in-owner-building/#comment-3548 Mon, 30 Apr 2012 06:12:24 +0000 http://shambolicliving.wordpress.com/?p=1357#comment-3548 In reply to orples.

Thanks Orples

]]> By: shambolicliving https://shambolicliving.com/2012/04/20/the-story-of-shambles-manor-an-exercise-in-owner-building/#comment-3547 Mon, 30 Apr 2012 06:11:59 +0000 http://shambolicliving.wordpress.com/?p=1357#comment-3547 In reply to Fluffy Rankin.

Thank you, we’ve done the renovation thing too and it’s no fun!

]]> By: Fluffy Rankin https://shambolicliving.com/2012/04/20/the-story-of-shambles-manor-an-exercise-in-owner-building/#comment-3546 Sun, 29 Apr 2012 05:19:54 +0000 http://shambolicliving.wordpress.com/?p=1357#comment-3546 I to had a dream of building. I would take a pen and paper into display houses and carefully write the color combinations’s of the paint the interior decorators would use to create “that” look. I would collect the floor plans and carefully remodel them to suit my own ideas. Then the reality would hit when I brought my plans home to hubbysayno. He had many good reasons why we would never build. And we never did. But I feel that it is I who now has the last laugh. We have purchased two houses in the last 10 years. The first house was way to small and at the updating age, we were told by our overly cautious parents that no one’s first house is the dream house -They must have forgot we were adults, in our thirties with two kids and we both had full time professional jobs, we could afford a house in which we could all fit in. Because my plans of building were dreams, the present house we are in is at the 12 year mark. Of course, buying a house at the 12 year mark means updating, replacing, repairing, repainting, roof restoration. It is karma, that now as each little thing goes wrong with our house I can sit back and say.. no nothing lasts forever, if we had built that bran spanking new house we wouldn’t need to replace, repaint, repair, roof restore. We could enjoy the newness, move out at the ten year mark and leave all the maintenance to someone much more handy than us to do. So Janine, good on you for sticking to your dream, regardless of the cost and modifications the benefits are there.

]]> By: orples https://shambolicliving.com/2012/04/20/the-story-of-shambles-manor-an-exercise-in-owner-building/#comment-3545 Tue, 24 Apr 2012 04:38:53 +0000 http://shambolicliving.wordpress.com/?p=1357#comment-3545 I spent 19 years designing roof trusses and tweaking houses to accomodate trussed roofs. I’ve watched people suffer through horror stories of things gone wrong in construction, and I’ve watched others breeze through. (a lot has to do with the builder, some with the lot, some with the weather, etc. There are a lot of variables to contend with. I wish you the best of luck in getting your home finished, and hope you have many, many, years of happy memories waiting to be had in the near future.

]]> By: ChrystinaNoel https://shambolicliving.com/2012/04/20/the-story-of-shambles-manor-an-exercise-in-owner-building/#comment-3544 Sat, 21 Apr 2012 22:17:46 +0000 http://shambolicliving.wordpress.com/?p=1357#comment-3544 Oh no. Good luck with things. And show us pictures!!

By the way – did I ever tell you that my actual big people job is construction consultant? We help large corporations when their construction projects go over budget or over schedule. Strange, huh?

]]> By: Noreen https://shambolicliving.com/2012/04/20/the-story-of-shambles-manor-an-exercise-in-owner-building/#comment-3543 Sat, 21 Apr 2012 17:48:37 +0000 http://shambolicliving.wordpress.com/?p=1357#comment-3543 i honor you for attempting this. best wishes for the house of your dreams one day!

]]> By: shambolicliving https://shambolicliving.com/2012/04/20/the-story-of-shambles-manor-an-exercise-in-owner-building/#comment-3542 Sat, 21 Apr 2012 00:14:43 +0000 http://shambolicliving.wordpress.com/?p=1357#comment-3542 In reply to the domestic fringe.

Just make sure you’ve got plenty of cash. Think if I did it again I would go a project home I could walk through and sign a set-price contract. Trying to be original is expensive and a time consuming process.

]]> By: the domestic fringe https://shambolicliving.com/2012/04/20/the-story-of-shambles-manor-an-exercise-in-owner-building/#comment-3541 Sat, 21 Apr 2012 00:07:03 +0000 http://shambolicliving.wordpress.com/?p=1357#comment-3541 Ok. Your story makes me scared to build. Ever. We are on our third house and we’ve majorly renovated all of them. To be honest, I’m tired of living in construction. Sometimes it just stinks and I dream of a day when I can build.

]]> By: Diana Douglas https://shambolicliving.com/2012/04/20/the-story-of-shambles-manor-an-exercise-in-owner-building/#comment-3540 Fri, 20 Apr 2012 15:58:44 +0000 http://shambolicliving.wordpress.com/?p=1357#comment-3540 We’ve never built from scratch, but we have remodeled. Having someone invade your home and tear it apart before they put it back together again is nerve-wracking!

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