Comments on: Budgets: No Clear Winner http://www.shawnbusse.com/private/houseblog/budgets-no-clear-winner a new studio, a new home Mon, 19 Jul 2010 17:24:28 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.2.1 By: Shawn http://www.shawnbusse.com/private/houseblog/budgets-no-clear-winner/comment-page-1#comment-57 Shawn Fri, 11 Apr 2008 05:59:58 +0000 http://www.shawnbusse.com/private/houseblog/budgets-no-clear-winner#comment-57 Hey Roxanne, Thanks for the input. It's so hard for me to cut these sorts of things....one of the big problems I'm having right now is that financing has gotten incredibly tight. So, while a year ago this sort of project would have been a slam dunk, it;s difficult to find money to fund the thing. Several lenders have flat out rejected it, while others have said they *might* do the project *if* we can get the costs way down. Rocks and hard places! that's my life right now. Thanks for the link! Shawn Hey Roxanne,

Thanks for the input. It’s so hard for me to cut these sorts of things….one of the big problems I’m having right now is that financing has gotten incredibly tight. So, while a year ago this sort of project would have been a slam dunk, it;s difficult to find money to fund the thing. Several lenders have flat out rejected it, while others have said they *might* do the project *if* we can get the costs way down.

Rocks and hard places! that’s my life right now.
Thanks for the link!
Shawn

]]> By: Roxanne http://www.shawnbusse.com/private/houseblog/budgets-no-clear-winner/comment-page-1#comment-56 Roxanne Thu, 10 Apr 2008 17:38:16 +0000 http://www.shawnbusse.com/private/houseblog/budgets-no-clear-winner#comment-56 It's hard to give up natural light, but I totally understand the budget thing. We were at the same place in December and had to make some tough choices. We kept all of our windows, but made some inoperable (much less expensive) and consolidated small windows into larger openings. Now that the windows are in, we could have made some a bit smaller- but we're happy we kept them all. Here's the blog on our window cost reduction exercise: http://ecodeephaus.blogspot.com/2007/12/one-of-kevins-favorite-books-as-child.html Good luck! Roxanne It’s hard to give up natural light, but I totally understand the budget thing. We were at the same place in December and had to make some tough choices. We kept all of our windows, but made some inoperable (much less expensive) and consolidated small windows into larger openings. Now that the windows are in, we could have made some a bit smaller- but we’re happy we kept them all.
Here’s the blog on our window cost reduction exercise:
http://ecodeephaus.blogspot.com/2007/12/one-of-kevins-favorite-books-as-child.html

Good luck! Roxanne

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