Well, actually, my late husband didn't built the house.
He designed most of it but he was busy running his computer business.
The builder was building a lot of other houses around us.
We were lucky because my husband knew HOW to build houses. He kept an eye and changed designs as it was being built.
That said, there were still things that the builder slipped in, most were caught but some weren't.
Here's an example. We had the entire rec room panelled. My husband took one look at it and said, "It's not the panelling I picked. The panelling I picked was better quality and it was supposed to be placed on the wall a specific way".
You know what they did? They put new panelling over all they'd just put up. My husband said that was fine because it would help insulate the rec room.
My house is almost entirely brick. Not a lot of houses have that much brick anymore because it's too expensive. Remember this was back in the late 70's. But there is a small amount in the front and back of house.
My husband got a ladder and pulled off one of the pieces of siding and there was no insulation under it.
He called the builder and told him that he (my husband) would be pulling off all of the siding and he (the builder) could put insullation under it like he was supposed to do.
One time we just drove by to see how it was going (pouring rain coming down). My husband got out of the car and walked into the partially built house and saw where it was leaking around the flashing around the chimney in living room.
He called the builder and told him to either come out himself or send a worker and fix the flashing. We waited in car in front of the house and the builder himself showed up. My husband and the builder climbed on the roof (I was afraid they'd slip in the rain...but they didn). Together they put sealent around the flashing.
But he was at work when the electrician wired the house. I did pick where I wanted plugs and light switches. I have ceiling fans in almost all of the rooms and dimmer switches on the wall switches. But....
here's an example where my house got flubbed up. I had all of my plugs replaced a while back. Well, guess what! The plugs don't work with the new one's. My friend who is a real electrician said to replace the new one's with the old plugs.
He said it's very difficult for other electricians to figure out how a previous electrician ran his wires in the house.
So there were things like that that got by us.
As the house was being built I was there every day staining the wood around windows, etc. I also put up all of the wallpaper.
I could easily hire a general contractor and keep an eye on things.
But you are way better than I am because I get bored very quickly and loose interest.
That's why my daughter is right behind me with this master bathroom stuff. I could care less about colors, designs, etc.
My daughter could easily be an events planner. That's kinda her thing. So, I'm like, "You go for it. I'll pay but you pick it out and get the stuff moving".
I think you'll do a great job. Oh! I almost forgot. It's not unusual for plumbers to mix up hot and cold faucets. My friend had her house added on. To this day the hot and cold faucets are STILL messed up. There are so many things that need to be 'redone' it's crazy.
So, my point is we've all been there and done that.
I once told my husband, "I get asked all of the time how you know how to do everything". He said, "I just am not afraid to TRY it. If I mess up. I go back and fix it".
Makes sense. I know you will do amazing, I don't doubt it for a minute.
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