with a few cats and a dog, life used to be so hard..now everything is easy 'cuz of you
So, we're building a house. We've been looking at houses for the past couple of years, and honestly really thought a house was out of reach. As of late, property prices have really fallen around here, significanly, and on a whim I checked out this builder we visited a few years ago.
Turns out, they're on their final phase of construction, and I guess really want to gtfo since our new construction market is so dismal up here, and so they slashed their prices. Bad for current residents, good for us I guess.
So, rather than buying a pre-existing old and busted, we're building a fancy dancy new just for us... it's scary, crazy and I'm having a hard time wrapping my head around the fact that we're going to have something so nice.
Anyhoo... it's a 4 bedroom, 2.5 bath 2400 sq ft 2 story house with a 2 car garage and a 1200 sq ft basement. We pretty much loaded the thing with options because when we went to the sales guy we were like.. lets go all out and see how much it is to get everything we want... surprisingly it was in our ballpark. So we're going for it!
Well, this is our lot, it backs to a couple of ponds, some woods and wetlands. These things are permanent so we won't ever have houses back there. The other day we saw a long tailed deer running through the woods!
It's only .25 acre, so it's a relatively small lot, but I guess that's enough for us to take care of for now since we're really not the gardening types.
This is a similar house in the neighborhood, for some reason the plan we chose isn't all that popular so we could only find 3 in the entire place. Our house will have a linen siding (cream/white) burgundy shutters and door, dark red brick and a black roof
This is the first floor, we've got ceramic tile going in the foyer, hallway, powder room, kitchen and breakfast area. We've upgraded the cabinets to a red cherry, all stainless steel appliances and haven't really picked out counter tops yet. We are getting the fireplace in the family room.
The Den is Ryan's computer room, he's got a ceiling fan in there and his own 20 amp circuit LOL we put a fan in the fireplace room as well. Oh and we've got the full basement (the crawl is all dug out so the whole thing is basement) with roughed in plumbing for a 3rd full bath.
This is the 2nd floor, we're getting the super bath in our bathroom, so we'll have a door to the toilet... I think that's my favorite part about the whole house! All 4 bedrooms will be wired for reinforced overhead electrics (we can put in fans or lights)
We signed all of the papers yesterday, put in all of our earnest money and downpayments, and they go to apply for building permits, we should be breaking ground in the next 2 or 3 weeks! We're going to hope for closing at the end of September or in October.
I'm really excited! We just kinda skipped over the whole "starter house" idea and went for it balls out.. I'm totally in shock that it's working out. Ryan really is my lucky charm, my life wouldn't be a fraction as good were it not for him.
We're having so much fun, we go visit our lot every week, we get to pick out colors and tiles and all that stuff, we're really having a great time about it!
Yay us!
We're so excited, and can't wait for it to be finished, we're going to have a huge housewarming party when it's all done, I think we're going to have people over as much as possible, it's going to be so much nicer than this small apartment! And all of our animals will have places to be heheheh
So, we're building a house. We've been looking at houses for the past couple of years, and honestly really thought a house was out of reach. As of late, property prices have really fallen around here, significanly, and on a whim I checked out this builder we visited a few years ago.
Turns out, they're on their final phase of construction, and I guess really want to gtfo since our new construction market is so dismal up here, and so they slashed their prices. Bad for current residents, good for us I guess.
So, rather than buying a pre-existing old and busted, we're building a fancy dancy new just for us... it's scary, crazy and I'm having a hard time wrapping my head around the fact that we're going to have something so nice.
Anyhoo... it's a 4 bedroom, 2.5 bath 2400 sq ft 2 story house with a 2 car garage and a 1200 sq ft basement. We pretty much loaded the thing with options because when we went to the sales guy we were like.. lets go all out and see how much it is to get everything we want... surprisingly it was in our ballpark. So we're going for it!
Well, this is our lot, it backs to a couple of ponds, some woods and wetlands. These things are permanent so we won't ever have houses back there. The other day we saw a long tailed deer running through the woods!
It's only .25 acre, so it's a relatively small lot, but I guess that's enough for us to take care of for now since we're really not the gardening types.
This is a similar house in the neighborhood, for some reason the plan we chose isn't all that popular so we could only find 3 in the entire place. Our house will have a linen siding (cream/white) burgundy shutters and door, dark red brick and a black roof
This is the first floor, we've got ceramic tile going in the foyer, hallway, powder room, kitchen and breakfast area. We've upgraded the cabinets to a red cherry, all stainless steel appliances and haven't really picked out counter tops yet. We are getting the fireplace in the family room.
The Den is Ryan's computer room, he's got a ceiling fan in there and his own 20 amp circuit LOL we put a fan in the fireplace room as well. Oh and we've got the full basement (the crawl is all dug out so the whole thing is basement) with roughed in plumbing for a 3rd full bath.
This is the 2nd floor, we're getting the super bath in our bathroom, so we'll have a door to the toilet... I think that's my favorite part about the whole house! All 4 bedrooms will be wired for reinforced overhead electrics (we can put in fans or lights)
We signed all of the papers yesterday, put in all of our earnest money and downpayments, and they go to apply for building permits, we should be breaking ground in the next 2 or 3 weeks! We're going to hope for closing at the end of September or in October.
I'm really excited! We just kinda skipped over the whole "starter house" idea and went for it balls out.. I'm totally in shock that it's working out. Ryan really is my lucky charm, my life wouldn't be a fraction as good were it not for him.
We're having so much fun, we go visit our lot every week, we get to pick out colors and tiles and all that stuff, we're really having a great time about it!
Yay us!We're so excited, and can't wait for it to be finished, we're going to have a huge housewarming party when it's all done, I think we're going to have people over as much as possible, it's going to be so much nicer than this small apartment! And all of our animals will have places to be heheheh
