Im Loving Rachael Ray

  Right now I'm super busy doing my daytime job and managing my future project through mobile phone and other medium. Yes, the house construction is ongoing and on its third month already. How time flies. The house is already taking its form. Honestly, Im lost now on my vision as i cannot visualize how the house will gonna be. But luckily, i really trust my contractor and i do know, they are doing their best to provide me a beautiful house as they usually do to their clients. I'm still in awe every time i will visit the site, i cannot believed that I'm building my second house and its for our retirement. Its mixed emotion actually as I'm foregoing a huge amount of money on my bank account to put it into what i can say an investment. My funds are depleting this time, but i know that i can pull this off. But over all I'm super excited to be living in this house, though for now its just our weekend home. I am also excited to share this wonderful project to my friends w

 I am so excited to share with you the exterior house plan....enjoy... From a modern bahay kubo to a more mediterranean style. At first i want to have a modern bahay kubo but this can be as such also right? hahaha I love the simplicity but grandeur of this style. Im seeing a beautiful flower garden and beautiful landscape and rocks to compliment the design. Will update you as i go along. The construction already started. The foundation was already done. Im becoming more excited as the days passed.

 And it started a week ago. For whatever it may cost, I had started it. There's a lot of problems initially but i really wanted to focus on the goal as i know preparation takes more time and effort. I want to enjoy the process and I don't want to be stressed about it. I'm so excited and i cannot contain it.

The final costing was revealed and it was totally out of my budget.  After careful consideration i still gave the approval to proceed with the project on the following consideration: 1. This is an investment also on my part. The property will increase its value in time even if the structure gets old. Usually the current value will always be higher than the acquisition and the construction cost. 2. This is my dream home and i want to push this to the limit cause anyway this will be our retirement home. I want to give my all to this project 3. The maximum guaranteed cost is still within my guaranteed savings. Meaning, i still have money to build this house with money still left on my bank account after the construction. But i have to properly select all the materials for me to save for the construction as the exterior wall painting and the fencing is still not considered on the budget. But nevertheless I'm still very hopeful that it can still be accommodated once the project is on-go

Finally, my contractor submitted the revised floor plan based on my approved budget. The specification is still the same, two bedroom and single CR cause this is just a weekend home/rest house. The first floor is an open plan layout. My bedroom is connected to the lanai as well as the living room. I actually conceptualized this home and I just have the contractor put it into a drawing. The contractor hid the bedroom and the door leading to the comfort room.  The second floor is dedicated to my sister and my nieces because i wanted them to have some privacy. As you can see, I interchanged the two rooms cause i want my room to be near the lanai as I want to entertain friends. Beside the upper room is connected into a family area which is a bridge that separated the living room and the dining room. Im so excited with this design as I know that this is new to the usual design of the house. I am so excited for this though pressure and stress is taking over me already. Please pray for me to

I was outside the house last weekend when my contractor saw me while I was watering the plants. The wife who is an interior designer informed me that they actually revised some on the plan to suit my budget. But its not a big change she said, and it made me so happy. So they are still working on it despite my limited budget. And kudos to them, I do suggested also some cost savings suggestions but never compromising the whole aesthetics. I hope they had a better plan which I still believe, they had. I really really like the house, it was my first collaboration with a designer. I am envisioning how it will turn out and already planning the over look of the interiors. It will be disappointing to change the plan, and not to push through with it because i dream of that house. I hope it will come true.