Crafting a home of your dreams is all about setting your goals and taking steps to achieve them. Be clear from the start what you want, how every room should like and how can you achieve it? Ask your family how they want the living space, bedrooms, kids room, kitchen to look like and what design elements make sense according to your lifestyle. Get everyone's opinions, needs and choices and then make a decision. Setting a goal is what architects refer to as a program. Your architect will often refer to as program, you should interpret as a goal statement.

Setting a budget is part of the program or goal statement. There will be a time when what you want will not be what you can afford. Hence, you'll need a Plan B sometimes. So make sure you are ready with your Plan B. While setting a budget, include everything of the plan in details. Cost of the land, decoration, details, taxes, landscape, design fixtures, furniture etc. Use an excel sheet to develop a budget.