Our offer was just accepted on some land to build a house on!!
After multiple delays due to issues with getting DOT and county approval for new subdivision stuff; finally closed! We now own a bunch of land. Can't do anything at all with it until we get the floor plan finalized.
That is awesome! I built our house about 13 years ago after almost two years of research. Oh wow did i learn some things in the building process though. I'd love to discuss if you are interested. In general, where are you building? We build in a hot humid climate and most of the design choices followed that. Low mass walls and roof, porch to obstruct sun; foam insulation, longer W-E than N-S, etc.
Cool! We're in North Carolina; so pretty hot and humid at least as far as the US goes... not as much as plenty of other countries. Never would have thought about things like W-E vs N-S, but that makes sense.