Building the Dream

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How we finally got our Barbados home

In the last installment, we’d settled on our dream home design, and were almost ready to start building. The next step was to get modified drawings and secure planning permission.

First we had to finalize what our version of the design would look like. There weren’t any already constructed, but our architect was able to send over plans of a modified design she’d done for a client. Our person on the ground — my mum — met with her regularly to keep things ticking along, handing over money from the local bank account we’d set up for the mortgage.

Meanwhile emails were flying back and forth as the final design took shape. We had to consider:

Then it was time to submit the plans to Town Planning and wait for approval. Planning permission had been known to come through in a month, but three months was a more realistic estimate. While I can no longer remember the exact date of submission, I do know that we got planning permission five months after starting our discussions about the final home design. The next step: get the darned thing built, but even that would end up taking longer than we thought.

Part of the reason is that a self-build has a LOT of moving parts. We’d needed to get approved plans before we could finalize our mortgage. And to do that, we had to raise some more cash in the UK, most likely by selling and moving again to free up some equity. Though homes were still selling quickly, it would still take a couple of months to raise our 10% deposit for the contractor.

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