by Alison Moore Smith | Jun 29, 2009 | Design Your Own House, for Home
This afternoon I took the wet-stamped blueprints, the signed and certified engineering drawings, the energy code compliance report, and the 200-some-odd other required doodads to the Lindon City Offices. Along with a check for $100. The house plans have been...
by Tracy Keeney | Jun 29, 2009 | for Spirit
The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints is the only true and living church on the face of the earth because it is the only church that has the fullness of the gospel of Jesus Christ, along with the laws and priesthood authority to govern it and perform...
by Alison Moore Smith | Jun 23, 2009 | Design Your Own House, for Home
The city of Lindon require—among a billion other things—a model energy code compliance report to prove, I suppose, that your model energy code is complaint with whatever Lindon officials have deemed necessary to comply with in regards to the energy code. So,...
by Angie Gardner | Jun 21, 2009 | for Spirit
Haven’t we each had times in our life where we can feel God’s hand directing our actions? More even than our actions, at times I have felt him directing even those around me, like a symphony that He is orchestrating and conducting where all of the...
by Alison Moore Smith | Jun 20, 2009 | Design Your Own House, for Home
While reconfiguring the house plans, Sam asked for a complete list of appliances. For some people this is easy, but for me it’s been a chore. I’ve purchased so many rotten appliances in my life — dishwashers that can only clean pre-washed dishes for...
by Alison Moore Smith | Jun 16, 2009 | Design Your Own House, for Home, for Money
On Monday we met with the first builder to come up with a bid for us. To say the least, it was disappointing. The total came in at $804,266. And that’s after we bought the lot for $248,000. Seriously. We’ve built a million dollar home. And this is not it!...
by Alison Moore Smith | Jun 4, 2009 | for Good
For the past couple of days, I’ve been having a discussion with an LDS friend. It was sparked by my FaceBook link to an article called American Capitalism Gone with a Whimper from Pravda, referenced here by Kristen Chevrier. My friend didn’t approve of the...
by Alison Moore Smith | Jun 2, 2009 | Design Your Own House, for Home
When we built the Eagle Mountain house in 2003, we chose to put fans in most of the less formal main living areas for comfort. Each of the seven bedrooms had a fan, as did the family room and “the canyon.” (This was a three story high area adjacent to the...
by Alison Moore Smith | May 25, 2009 | Design Your Own House, for Home
When we designed our first custom home in 2002, we didn’t pay much attention to size. Since we had five acres of land to play with, we had few constraints. The biggest problem we had was getting height approval by the city. We focused, instead, on function. We...
by Alison Moore Smith | May 20, 2009 | for Money
After trying the credit report that gives no scores, I’ve turned to the commercial world of credit report offerings. I’ve narrowed the myriad free credit score offerings to three. Each one offers a slightly different twist and they all have fine print you...
