New Home

Around 18 months ago, before Ivy and I got married, we both thought about buying a piece of land in the country and building on it. it was somewhat of a pipe dream as the plausibility of doing this here in Taiwan was limited. We shelved the idea and looked into every other option for owning our own house. We looked at old houses with the plan to renovate. We looked at store fronts with homes above them with the plan to open a small bookstore and cafe. We looked at newly built houses. And one point, Ivy even suggested we buy an apartment just to get us into the property 'game'. None of the above options were viable, affordable, or even vaguely interesting for us.

So recently we went back to our original plan in the country. This blog will follow our progress. Well, as best as it can. There is lots of work ahead of us as we go through everything; choosing flooring, planting trees, arguing, shelving etc. I'll do my best to update in English and Ivy will do her best to update in Chinese.

在Leighton還沒跟我求婚以前，我們已經有了建構自己的家的想法，當時我們夢想的房子是有各大院子不是很大的房子(打掃很累)但感覺溫暖適合小家庭，小孩可以在院子裡玩耍，有生活品質。當時看了好幾間已蓋好的農舍，但因為貸款乘數不高，我們的存款也不多，所以作罷。
經過了一兩年的時間，計劃有了些改變，需求也變了。我們計畫開間複合式英文教材書店，所以轉向看市區的房子，還是想要有個院子種種花草樹木，但是新房子太 貴，院子又小(房子坪數也不大)，想找老房子坪數大一點有院子，但價格不合理想，看了一堆不喜歡的房子，總是有些地方感覺不對，地點、坪數、院子不夠大或 是房子太老需要花大筆錢整理。
結果還是看回原來我們理想中的房子，打了通電話給之前認識的建商，詢問他是否有蓋一些新農舍可以看看，就這樣，我們戰戰兢兢簽了我們未來的房子。