What's It
Going to Cost?
by Gordon F. Tully
In my class on custom house design
at Harvard's Graduate School of
deliberately omitted in cheaper
construction.
Design, much of the discussion
centers on how to spend money
wisely when building or rebuilding a
house. Here are some of the
questions most often asked.
Why Do Building Costs Vary So
Much? Very similar houses can range
in price from $50 a square foot to over
$200 a square foot. What is an owner
buying at $200 which is not included at
$50?
There are of course a number of
unproductive ways to spend money,
such as waste, the cost of
inexperience, excessive profit, graft,
and theft. Leaving these aside, the
useful things money can