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les&Tasha
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Grand Design in Turkey ??
We have been looking at houses lately. We cannot find what we want. There are lots of “villas” but they are designed as summer houses and mostly built on Handkerchief size plots (less than 500 SQM). They are just not designed for year round living. They are also nearly all too small – around 200 SQM fine for a couple but small for a family if you want visitors. The triplexes are bigger but living over 3 floors does not appeal. Also we don’t want to live on a foreigner complex so what we are left with is individual houses and there are not so many for sale.
We drew up a wish list. Big plot (1500 SQM) not overlooked now or in the future (means Kat 2,5 or 3 zoned land). Large ground floor open plan, maybe 200 SQM. First floor 4 double bedrooms 3 bathrooms around 150 SQM. Plus pool and terraces. When you put these requirements to the emlaks you pretty soon realise that the only way you are going to get what you want is to build it yourself...
So we start discussing a “Grand Design” in Turkey. We buy the land, employ an architect to design the house we want and then build it. We would not trust this to a single contractor. We would buy all the materials and project manage the sub contractors ourselves.
Are we insane to consider doing this?
If any member done something similar can you share your experiences and views.
We drew up a wish list. Big plot (1500 SQM) not overlooked now or in the future (means Kat 2,5 or 3 zoned land). Large ground floor open plan, maybe 200 SQM. First floor 4 double bedrooms 3 bathrooms around 150 SQM. Plus pool and terraces. When you put these requirements to the emlaks you pretty soon realise that the only way you are going to get what you want is to build it yourself...
So we start discussing a “Grand Design” in Turkey. We buy the land, employ an architect to design the house we want and then build it. We would not trust this to a single contractor. We would buy all the materials and project manage the sub contractors ourselves.
Are we insane to consider doing this?
If any member done something similar can you share your experiences and views.