Top Ways to Save Money When Building House

How to avoid heartache when Constructing your dream House.

Building a new home can be expensive, but with these tips, you should be able to keep the costs down.

Building your house from the ground up can be a remarkably rewarding experience.  It gives you the chance to tailor your home to suit your tastes and to adapt to your family's needs, both today and in the future.  Building a house doesn't have to be a gruelling process, though.  Going through the process with your eyes open and with a company plan can save you heartache along the way.  Here are our top tips to save money during the building process.

Get Your Building Plans in Order to Save

Be sure you meticulously plan the specifics of your house.  

What will the flow and layout of the rooms be? 

What type of lighting will you use?

The number of power plugs and types of sockets (Regular plug or USB) are you going to put in (tip: you always need more than you think)?

There are a lot of useful tools for planning out the design of your dwelling.  Sites and software programs that allow you to create mock floorplans.  When in doubt, good old grid paper will do the job as well. You will also need to start keeping an eye on layout ideas that inspire you, which you want to emulate. 

Special Tip: Consider starting a Pinterest board for every room of your home to file away illustrations of your favorite designs.  In addition to helping you plan, they will be a terrific point of reference to show your builders once construction is underway.

Building a home will be an expensive procedure.

It's likely you'll end up paying more than you expected.  That having been said, there are ways that you can save money.  Shop around for the best prices on fittings and fixtures, and on the materials, your builder will use.  Get multiple quotes for any item needed during the building procedure.
One great way to save money at the outset of the process is by picking a site that requires less preparation. 

Hauling off dirt, removing stones or clearing brush is a costly part of building a home.
By Picking a lot that needs little preparation before construction commences can minimize these costs.

Become an owner-contractor if you're searching for deep savings, you could consider taking on the role of the proprietor.  This means you would handle the logistics of the home building process.  This doesn't necessarily require expertise in home construction, but it will require plenty of your time and some serious project management skills.

Saving money when building a home is possible you just have to have the time to do all the leg work.