Commissioning and building your own home from scratch can have financial and practical benefits. You can in partnership develop a design with a special quality suited to your personal taste and needs, whilst avoiding the payment of VAT which is not applied to new-build development. Building your own home to a properly considered design can not only save on initial building costs and reduce future costs-in use but may also fulfil a dream. The process of making good that dream can itself be as fulfilling as time to be spent in the finished home.