If you have reached a point in your life when you can afford to have your dream home built, you may already have a general idea of how you want it. However, you may be unsure of where to start conveying your desires to the building company. If so, write out the answers to the following three questions to help get you started.

What Are Your Future Plans?

Before you decide on how large you want your home, as well as how many bedrooms or bathrooms you will need, first consider your future plans. For example, if you and your spouse are fairly young and do not have any children yet, think about whether you may have kids at some point in the future. If you think you may have two, for instance, you may want to plan on having at least three bedrooms.

Also, if you have elderly parents that you feel may eventually need to stay with you for a while, you may want to consider having a guest bedroom included in your plans. You may also want to have an adjoining bathroom.

How Do You Want Your Home To Flow?

Another thing to consider is how you want your home's floor plan to flow. Do you like wide open living spaces? If so, you may want to have an open floor plan where the living room and kitchen occupy the same space and are perhaps divided by a bar counter with stools.

Also, think about how you want your bedrooms divided. Do you prefer a long hallway that leads to each room? Or would you prefer to have the master bedroom on one side of the house with the other bedrooms on the other side of the central living area?

How Much Light Do You Want?

Another thing to consider is how much light you want to have in your home. If you like light, airy spaces, you may want to plan on having skylights installed in the roof. You should also think about the style and size of your desired windows, which could include porthole windows in the main door or a large bay window in the living room.

While the above questions do not cover everything you will need to know when designing your dream house, they can get you started as well as spark other ideas. For more information and details on what building your new home will entail, you may want to discuss it with the custom home building company that will be designing and building your new house. Contact a company like Landmark Builders to get started.