Having designed and built several of my own homes has ben a blessing, but a curse. A blessing because I have been able to design things according to what I like and not have to settle on the closest matching house plan in a plan book. A curse because I can’t settle for a plan that is already drawn in a plan book, even though there are hundreds that would suit my needs/wants. I’ve just been thinking about this lately as I have tried to come up with a new home design. We plan to build again, basically as soon as we can come up with a house plan that we like. Unfortunately, being in the home building industry… there are so many things I have seen and would like to do that I can’t fit it all into one home. I guess I’ll just have to keep prioritizing and honing what we have.