One of the major milestones in the life of every Indian middle-class family is house construction. Nowadays the ready to occupy villas, apartments, easy availability of loans and the money available to people has made this less cumbersome. In my belief, if one goes through the experience of building a home he or his family will have a greater connect with it and love it to the core.
Coming from a middle-class family, I too grew up seeing my parents toil hard to construct a house. In those days, since my father and mother were working, my grandfather used to oversee the house construction and I used to accompany him during my vacations. The greatest thing which I enjoyed is the food which was brought from a local shop comprising of tea. In those days these were the only outside food which I got to eat.
After all the routine milestones in life viz study engineering, get a job, be in love, get married, have kids, the next thing in line was to build a home. My childhood experiences made me decide to have one constructed according to our needs rather than buying one. This happened in the first half of the previous decade. Cash at hand was extremely low, but thanks to banks offering loans we could buy a land in the location we indented. There were lots of negatives, viz the plot was rectangular with less width and more length, the land was sloping, there was no road frontage, it was the last plot of a steeply inclined road, the approach road was enough to test the powers of an SUV. The advantages were, it was the maximum which we could afford and the location was the midpoint of my wife's and my office.
These advantages far outweighed all other negatives coz we were in the search for a plot for almost one year and found this.
