I hope you get to the build the house. I remember you did a Q about it a year or so again. Obviously, it really is your dream house :). When my husband and I were first married we saw a house that I loved, but it was much too expensive, so we about a different house that I was very happy in. Two years later, our finances improved and we bought that house we could not afford previously. It was a dream for me. I never had thought I would ever own anything like that. We have sold the house since, but I still can’t believe I ever lived in it, and emotionally it is the most meaningful for me. I have lived in bigger, and what many would say better houses since, but that one I hold closest to my heart.
Are there model homes you can walk through where you live. Don’t just take my word for it, bring your measuring tape with you everywhere you go. Seriously, I always have a measureing tape. I have a little one that is a key chain, and if I know I am going to be looking at a house I bring a better one. I measure ceiling height, door height and width and hall width.