After months of waiting, calling, texting, emailing and meetings the bullet is bitten.
In our region, building a non traditional house is too expensive.
We’ve been talking to several builders/contractors and none wanted to build what we wanted them to build.
The materials we chose (compressed earth bricks) are unfamiliar and therefor to risky. The I-beams are doable but (very) expensive. Even the foundation turned out to be quite the undertaking.
As it turned out, when everything was said and done we could have our house, but it would cost us dearly.., almost half a million euros dearly (including the land).
Next to the fact that we’d never get a mortgage covering the costs.., it would mean we’d be paying for this a long time to come.
Plus.., this would include compromises we didn’t really want to make.
Making a tough decision when you have no real options is not as tough as it might seem. It’s no fun, but it’s not hard.
The house we planned, the house Lotte designed, the house we have on our wall as an inspiration, the house in which we already have invested so much (time, emotions and money), the house we told you about, the house which embodied our dream will not be build.
It’s sad really…, in the end it’s the reluctance of Men to challenge themselves which was a decisive factor.
I think Hamlet said it best: “What a piece of work is a man, how noble in reason, how infinite in faculties, in form and moving how express and admirable, In action how like an angel! In apprehension how like a god, the beauty of the world, the paragon of animals.”
This part is often quoted and based on this you’d imagine the possibilities are boundless.., anything can be done…, well yes.., until you meet the limitations of these godlike creatures.., Hamlet goes on saying.., “… and yet to me, what is this quintessence of dust?”
Indeed, sometimes people are nothing more than dust.
Tradition is the bane of progress…
We will find a solution, we will move on, we will be innovative, flexible and adaptable.
We will let you know…
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