House Designs and Challenges. I have been thinking long and hard about what our ‘house’ should be like, how it should be designed etc. Some people really enjoy this type of thing, but for me it’s turning into a bloody nightmare. I have to take into account so many different things, which is very natural when your planning on building your own home. The thing is I have to take very simple things into account, things like, the materials, the sustainability of building materials, and also the little easily over looked fact that I have never built...