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Category: The New Build

link to Getting Our Building Permits

Getting Our Building Permits

One of the homeowner responsibilities when building a new home is getting the building permits. With a little research, help from your builder and other contractors, it can be easy-ish. Below, you'll...

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link to Choosing The Finishes For Our New Build

Choosing The Finishes For Our New Build

Even though we had done our homework and made some pre-selection choices, we took a few extra minutes on the big items to be sure of our decision. In this post I share our experience and best tips...

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link to Getting Our Well

Getting Our Well

Without having access to city water, we'll need to find a way to supply our new home with water. As with most elements of our build, half the fun is doing our research first. So, it was time to dig...

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Felling Trees, Fixing The Driveway & Clearing The Lot  

After our first site meeting with the Quality Homes Foundation Supervisor and our Site Contractor, we had a clear understanding of our next steps on the lot. The first item on the list was to clear...

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link to Preparing For The First Site Meeting

Preparing For The First Site Meeting

It wasn't just the house we were laying out but driveways, sheds and gardens too. It turns out that this can be a much more complex a phase than I imagined, as you try to find the balance between all...

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link to Choosing A Builder – Part 3: Why We Chose to Build a Quality Home

Choosing A Builder – Part 3: Why We Chose to Build a Quality Home

Yes, we're choosing to build a Quality Home/ Factory built home, let's take a look at the rest of the reasons for our choice.

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Hi! I'm Carol - The Cottage Wife. My husband Brian and I had a cottage on the Bruce Peninsula in Ontario, Canada for over 10 years. It turns out that we love the area so much we've built our forever (retirement) home here. I thought it would be fun to share some of our adventures with you. One of the things we really want to focus on is making as light an impact on the land as we can, while still living a modern life. We'll see how that goes!

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