Call them plans, really. I’m not huge on suddenly deciding to make a big change on New Year’s day: History suggests that those types of plans rarely work out. But, here’s mine anyway. Hold me to it.
To be completely honest, I have been thinking about this for a a few months. In a sense I have dreamed of doing this for years and years.
Within one year I want to be ready to buy, or to have just purchased land. I am looking for 20-40 acres to the northwest of Portland between the city and the coast. I am aiming at no more than an hour (or so) drive to downtown.
Then, sometime Spring ‘09, I want to break ground on a house. I want to do most if not all of the work myself, both to save money, and also because I have pretty specific ideas on what I want in a house. It will be a small house, not more than 1000 sq. ft. That way I will be able to afford to lavish attention on the details: I will be able to build my own cabinets, the doors, and built-ins. I want to build a small house like its a piece of furniture. I also want the house to be small so I can make it efficient: I want it to make a small ecological footprint, rather than a large one.
So that’s the plan.
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