Tomorrow (August 5th, 2010) is a big day for me. It’s the start of a 1000 day project to research, fund, design and do everything required to subsequently build our next house.
I’ve allocated this 1000 day block because that’s how my brain works at the moment. The thousand days takes us to the end of April 2013, during which time there will be thumbing through books, saving of pennies, drawing of plans and likely all manner of miscellaneous things I don’t yet know of to get to the stage where the build can start.
The build will have 200 days allocated to it – so, for each day of build time, there’re 5 days allocated prep time. Honestly, I have no idea if this is wildly inaccurate or not. Right now, as I type this, I’m genuinely excited about this project – and at the same time I’m utterly terrified and clueless.
Over the coming 1200 days I hope to be able to learn, share and hopefully pass on the stuff I encounter, both good and bad. I’m hoping to be on TV in some fashion, I want to write a book (currently codenamed The House That Geeks Built – any rich publishing magnates with spare cash are invited to option the first edition with a fat advance), it’s all part of the latest chapter of my life that I’m slowly learning to embrace and enjoy, rather than endure and resist.
The mere act of committing this plan to type has solidified it in my mind and given me the focus I need to start the project. It’s been two years in the making already, but only in my head. Well, I say my head, it’s been the source of domestic unrest and heartache in the current house – colloquially known as Cooper Towers – and I’m sure the next 1200 days will no doubt include far more heated debate.
I don’t want to focus on the negatives and the stuff in the past, that’s all done and dusted, I can’t change what’s already happened, and I wouldn’t want to. What I can do, though, is to undertake things over the coming 4 years or so that right now I can’t even dream of. And that scares the bejeebies out of me.
Ladies and gentlemen, we’re going to build Cooper Acres. Welcome aboard.
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