We have our land and now to build our dream house.

For many months, while living at Nando House I had been designing how I imagined our dream house in Ubud would look. Everywhere I went I would take a tape measure with me and I would measure rooms and ceiling heights. I looked at materials people had used in their houses and made notes of what I liked. Now that we had our land I was able to refine my designs to suit and spent many hours there with my sketch book and tape measure getting my design right.

I found a local company who could translate my drawings to working plans. At a meeting with them they told me that they also built houses. We looked at many of their projects and liked what they were doing. We had our builder.

We had a survey done and the shape and size of our house was pegged out on our block, this was changed three times, the last time Tim and I did at dawn one morning.

We signed a contract with the builders and we are ready to start to build the first house we have ever built.