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    Why do you want to build your own home?

    What are the reasons you have for wanting to spend the next couple years pulling out splinters, applying Ben-Gay and watching your blisters grow more blisters then pop in some horrifying way? :D

    In other words, why do you want to build your own log home?

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    Why do you want to build your own home?

    :shock:

    Anyone wanna take a poke at this?

    For me its stepping back and saying "Damn! Look at what I did!"

    * I can think of a thousand other reasons but I'll leave room for the others!

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    Why do you want to build your own home?

    I like the whole idea of building your own really authentic sturdy log home. I probably won't even live in it for more then two months. I just want to build it and see how much someone is willing to pay for it. I look at it like a fun experiment. As an artist it's a way for me to be creative which I always enjoy being. I see that at this point in my life this is something that would be worth my time to create.

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    Why do you want to build your own home?

    Why would anyone want to spend a lifetime of paying other people for doing something that they could do themselves for a fraction of the cost?
    ......Or in other words...why do you drive yourself to work...why not call a cab to take you there every day? He/she knows how to drive better than you, thats thier job.
    If you think you can do something as good as the next person...why pay more for them to do it...so much more that you have to pay the bank a fortune for the opportunity to let them do it. Just because its normal doesn't mean it makes good sense. :wink:

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    Why do you want to build your own home?

    Welllllll... for me, I wanted to build our own home because.....

    ... building a home with my husband was as much about the "journey" as about the "destination".
    ... we got to spend a lot of time out in the open enjoying our land in the process.
    ... every night I fell in bed exhausted and sore, I had the satisfaction of knowing that I was a smarter, stronger, tougher person than the person I had woken up as.
    ... it was an incomparable learning experience for our sons in adventure, patience, fortitude and cooperation.
    ... like Donny, I found it an excellent new way to express myself creatively, as well as a new and exciting experience. (Hi, Donny! :D )
    ... the biggest problems and frustrations of the process came when we hired people (even good professionals) to do various small parts of the construction. :evil:
    ... every inch of our house has a memory attached.

    And maybe most of all, in a world and a time when if you have enough money, you can buy things, people, power and prestige... there was NO amount of money that could have bought THIS house, because it existed ONLY in our hearts and our vision. And until and unless Jeffrey and I choose to sell it... no amount of money every will! :D

    Sara

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    Why do you want to build your own home?

    I haven't built yet, but my primary motivation is financial. Second is that I feel I can build a better house than the so called "professionals" and have that feeling of accomplishment that others have mentioned.

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    Why do you want to build your own home?

    - having more house than we could buy
    - Because "they" say you can't
    - Real ownership
    - Don't have to live with someone elses mistake
    - "Have you seen Skip's house?!?!"
    - It gives us something to do with our "free time"
    - "Sweat Equity" why get another job to afford more?

    A few.. no real order though ;)

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    Re: Why do you want to build your own home?

    Quote Originally Posted by somasoul
    What are the reasons you have for wanting to spend the next couple years pulling out splinters, applying Ben-Gay and watching your blisters grow more blisters then pop in some horrifying way? :D

    In other words, why do you want to build your own log home?

    I'd gladly trade a 30 year mortgage for few splinters, some blisters and some sore muscles any day. And I'd also trade them for having to work for someone else. There is nothing like the satisfaction and feeling of accomplishment of being able to admire and live in something you built with your own hands, grit, and determination.

    Blayne

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    Why do you want to build your own home?

    You also don't have to pay income tax on your sweat equity.... ;)

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    why build your own home?

    Very simple...the same reason I have built other homes
    for myself. I'm cheap! cheap, cheap, cheap!! I can't
    stand to pay someone good money for something that I
    can probably do a whole lot better.

    Of course, as I get older I find myself saying; "Why build
    it myself when someone else is willing to do it for me?'
    My tired body is starting to overrule my cheapness.

    -Rick

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