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Planning Your Dream Home
For the Future
How To Plan Your Dream House So It Can Seamlessly
Morph Into Someone Else’s Dream Home?
BY MARSHA BROWN
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ou’ve finally reached the point in your career, in your life, where you’re able
to build your dream home. Congratulations! No doubt, it took a great deal of
strategy on your part, both in your personal and professional life to get to this point.
Now for the tricky part — using that same ability of strategic planning to make
sure you make all the correct decisions in planning your dream home so that it
doesn’t turn out to be a white elephant. Let’s face it — this might not always be your
dream home. Things change. People change. Children grow up. Tastes change. You
may want six bedrooms, eight baths, three stories and a multi-media room. There
may come a time when you long for a simple single-story, low-maintenance three
bedroom home. If and when that time comes, how easily will your dream segue into
becoming someone else’s dream home?
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Location, Location, Location
Finding the perfect setting for your dream home isn’t always easy. It
helps if you know what style of home you want. If you want a rustic
Texas ranch style, traditional or a Mediterranean, a wooded property
like this one is perfect. Having a terrain conducive to adding a circular
drive like this one adds to the “Country Manor,” effect as well.
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