Tips For Picking Out Home Finishes
I’m not gonna lie, I had a hard time when we were picking out our finishes. “Finishes” are basically all of the design choices you make in your house - paint colors, light fixtures, countertops, hardware, faucets, etc. Depending on how customizable your home is while you’re building you may have to make decisions on just a handful of items, or hundreds of things.
It can be overwhelming when you have so many decisions to make and so many options to choose from. Here’s my advice for how to make choosing your home finishes a little simpler.
The Inspiration For Our Little Eclectic Home
When we set out to build I knew two things 1) I wanted something different 2) I wanted something that didn’t necessarily look NEW.
So off to Pinterest I went! Somehow I stumbled across James Farmer’s The Farmdale Cottage and I thought…
How We Decided On Our Home Plans
Coming up with the plans for our home was probably one of the most fun parts of the building process. It was also the most stressful with so much to think about
We had a few guidelines to start with before we really began looking at plans.
How We Built A Custom Home At 23 Years Old
We built our home at 23 years old. That’s crazy, and probably wouldn’t have happened if my dad wasn’t a home builder. We didn’t set out to build. We wanted to find something existing, and thought we had to wait until we could afford to build. We didn’t realize at the time that building a new home was just as realistic for us as buying an existing home.