After deciding in October 2012 to wait until the Fall of 2013 to start our building project, we didn’t spend a lot of time talking about the house.  The disappointment of how expensive our bids ended up being prevented us from getting too excited about continuing to plan out our house.  We knew we wanted an energy efficient house, and up to this point, spray foam insulation was the only really good option we knew about.  But putting spray foam on the basement walls, main floor walls, and in the attic was going to be super expensive.

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