My wife and I started dreaming about building a house of our own when we were still living in the dorms.
We fell in love our junior year of college and have been inseparable since.
Even back then when we were enduring long Winters with radiant heating in those dorm rooms, we were planning for our future. Both of us were studying passions that led to good careers. I really think that’s the way to approach adult life. And when we had kids growing up inside the central air conditioning of our home, we pointed them in that direction. We fostered interests and urged our kids to follow what they wanted to do not just look for high paying careers. This formula certainly worked out for us and I think it will for our kids as well. Once the kids were off on their own, the planning of our first custom home began in earnest. This time, we were making plans for a real home and not the one we dreamed of back in college. This house would be just for the two of us and it would be based in our beliefs and our needs. So that meant some big choice when it came to making the house as sustainable as possible. And when it came to heating and cooling, we had to choose between traditional central air conditioning and a geothermal heat pump. We loved the idea of the super efficient geo heat pump. But the initial costs are considerably more than just the old school heat pump. In the end, we went with the geothermal heat pump and it worked out very well.