Australia to Texas and Starting to Build the Homestead – But What to Build?

Reader Contribution by Jim Christie
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In previous blogs, I’ve talked about building out our homestead in Texas, developing some skills that will be needed while still here in

Australia and other activities. We bought the land in Texas several years ago, developed an overall plan and then have implemented the infrastructure slowly over the past year or two. We’ve gotten electricity pulled from the main road and had a well dug. We will implement solar power as part of the overall plan, but figured that we’d need to have power from the grid anyway, so rather than implement solar at the beginning, we decided to use the local electric cooperative (the only choice really) for power at least during the construction and early stages of occupation when our power usage will be mostly very small. The requirements for our house were really pretty simple:

  • Living area and large storage and workshop area
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