Building Dreams

We’re in! And it feels great! We moved our furniture in over a few days – and when we had our first night in our new home it felt as if the last, hectic ten months of getting funding, planning permission and building hadn’t happened at all.

Everything is right. With our last build, we made a few rushed decisions which we regretted later on, but we took our time getting everything right with this place and it’s perfect for us. Everything flows, just how it should do. It’s spot on.

Amanda Lamb came to see the finished house for her programme, My Flat Pack Home.  She hadn’t seen it since the start of the build and it was interesting to get her opinion on it – she said it was really great, of course!

The build took six months, even with all the bad weather, so I’m pleased with that.  In total, the land cost £100,000 and the build cost £220,000. I’ve just had the house valued and it’s worth £400,000, so we’ve made £80,000 straight away.

Although this is the house we hope to spend a long time in, I would consider another self build project.  To be honest, we didn’t do any hands on construction, just project managed it, which I found quite easy.  Potton were fantastic, so were the tradespeople; they did what they said they were going to do, turned up when they said they would, and that made the process pretty pain free, so I would definitely think about taking on another project to sell on for profit.

Right now, though, we’re just going to relax in our fantastic new Potton home.

Catch the Cobbins on the Home channel 'in My Flat Pack Home' 20th July 10pm (sky 24 Virgin 265)