They say winter time is the best time to buy a new home. We discovered this is true for the following reasons:

1. When we were zeroing in on our choices of who to build with, where to live, etc. we had the full attention of all the salespeople -- because they hardly had any other people visiting. We were treated like royalty by all of the different builders we visited.

2. Once the building process actually got going, it went really quickly due to the fact that they only had one other house to build at the same time. There simply isn't a lot of construction going on during the winter months in Tennessee -- typically. So, we were treated like royalty by the builder, and he had more time (and willingness) to meet our special last-minute requests, etc.

3. It makes the dreary, winter months go by faster when you have something like a new home in the Spring to look forward to! Every day was filled with exciting new aspects about our future home. And if you start in December like we did, what better Christmas present to give yourself than a new house?!

albums: Building Our House