Blue Mountains Home - Operation Flying Eagle

This Tuesday we are settling on a very steep block of land in Katoomba. I have been doing the whole research to see what the most reasonable and sensible way to develop this site will be. For a start we don't really know the future all that well with my Melanoma so our plans could change. We may rent it as the boys are still in the middle of education. We may rent part and live or holiday in the other. We may live up there entirely - we just do not know the future. So I have been going through so many different architect's projects on a great site called lunchbox architect. The author of this website is fantastic and helpful. I have contacted so many different architects all over Australia and in New Zealand as well for price guides etc for various homes they have built. If nothing else it gives you great ideas. Plus from my humble point of view no house quite matches an architecturally designed one. I have looked at steel kit homes or going direct to people like Stratco once you have all your designs. Imagine kit homes and Ezy Homes. Loads of project homes, construction people and draughtspeople - but I am not a DIY person, nor do I feel qualified enough or interested enough to know the difference between some builders' work and others. I would rather pay a professional as you do a doctor or lawyer to make the home you want to reside in. This is incredibly important to me. Because your home and haven has such an enormous affect on your life, mood and health - which then affects all aspects of your life. I don't know if you have ever slept in or visited somewhere that makes you feel completely out of sorts, where you would rather not be and the very air makes you feel uncomfortable, (people can do that to me as well sometimes) - well if you have, you know what I mean. Additionally, because I am not well, this element of my life is ever more present. We looked at so much land and different houses but this is it. Very steep that is for sure!