Oh dear. Oh dear. I am making a little cross with my fingers, to ward you off. I count seven question marks in your second paragraph. Big ones, about 18 times the size they look.
You need someone locally to hep you out. A person familiar with construction and costs. Seriously. Books will be useless for one's locale.
You can get a slight underestimation of your costs by going to look at new houses for sale. See what 250K buys. 350K. 450K. 550K. Yet there is no way you can do it as cheaply as a builder building a house to sell. "Clients" complicate a house.
Dash and I looked at a "client" house in the desert. It was a 500K house that already had a million in it. That's extreme, but it's the condition. "Conversation", "implementations", selections, the dreaded "small changes", even the initial specification, are additive and must be modeled into the builders time and cost. This is standard operating procedure for some builders and locales; very expensive in others.
Then the question arises of "design", or "architected."
I don't know if I've ever met a person (often myself included), who can build a simple box of what they want. If such were a goal from the start, that in itself would be an interesting project.
BTW, brick is very expensive. |
