to life and should be an exciting and encouraging moment! Any time you take on the task of building a house from the ground up—whether it’s your first house or your hundredth—your success will come down to the amount of effort you put into finetuning your ideas before you even break ground. As you create the home on paper, don’t overlook any detail. Use all the tools at your disposal—paper sketches, notebooks, photos you saved on your phone or computer, etc. Creating a clear picture of your ideas will help those in charge of building your home bring your ideas to life. GETTING A GOOD GRADE Building a home won’t be over- whelming if you let design that you’ve thoroughly researched guide you and
keep you in control of the construc- tion. Completing the design phase of building a home from the ground up should give you a sense of accom- plishment—an A+ kind of feeling! •
WRITE IT OUT ON PAPER Sketching out your home designs does not mean you need to turn to an engineer or architect first. It is not uncommon for designers to sketch their building ideas on a napkin. Just get your concept down on paper, and then hand it off to the professionals to draft your ideas. Once you move to that stage, you’ll be committing yourself to your design ideas. Having a drafter take your ideas and develop them into a blueprint that is structurally engineered for your area is a pinnacle point in the process of designing a home. Having those blueprints in your hands will feel like a great achievement. With this stage, you will be able to move onto the actual building itself. The home will start to come
Michele Van Der Veen is host of Good Day segments, including Flip It, Decorate Like a Designer, and Stage to Sell. She started her career in real estate investing more
than 30 years ago. A published author, Van Der Veen has been recognized and featured in international magazines for her unique approach to interior design. Acquiring a formal education from the Interior Designers Institute of California, her experience stems from building custom homes to flipping more than 100 homes and working in commercial real estate development alongside her father at a young age. Not afraid to push the limit on her own designs and investments, Van Der Veen will often be heard reassuring her team about her decisions by saying “Don’t worry, we are the comps!” For more on Van Der Veen’s work or to contact her, visit iHeartHomescorp.com.
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