by Alison Moore Smith | Nov 7, 2008 | Design Your Own House, for Home
When we began to build our first custom home in 2002, I was very excited. Finally the project was underway. But in many ways, we had no idea what we were getting into. Choosing paint colors was fun. Deciding on kitchen cabinets was great. But when it got down to...
by Alison Moore Smith | Oct 15, 2008 | for Fun
In the early 1990s—not long after moving to Florida—I was introduced to Playmobil when a friend gathered up her kids and invited me to bring mine to the Playmobil Fun Park in Palm Beach Gardens. For $1.00 each, your kids can spend hours and hours in 20,000 square feet...
by Alison Moore Smith | Oct 9, 2008 | Design Your Own House, for Home
In 1992, we concocted a lease-to-own deal with a moderately desperate homeowner for our first home. In June 1997, we signed a contract with a builder for our second home. They called it “semi-custom,” which really meant, you pick one of the three models...
by Alison Moore Smith | Sep 30, 2008 | for Money
By the end of our move to American Fork, we ended up needing two new windshields. One car had two chips that spread, the other looks like it got hit with a baseball. I got bids from TechnaGlass and Glass Doctor. The quotes were as follows (tax is additional):...
by Alison Moore Smith | Sep 23, 2008 | Design Your Own House, for Home
Three moves are as good as a fire. And as we moved to the rental home to be closer to the build site, we probably did lighten our load of about a third of all our stuff. Two of those things were the small entertainment unit and the television from the master bedroom....
