We had a good meeting today with Lindsey to go over the proposal. The proposal was very well laid out. It showed all the standard items and base price items, and then nicely noted changed based on our tweaks to the plan, as well as a different colors for all of the items that were
We got the pricing proposal the other night and it came back higher than we thought it would. We assumed it would be high, but it was higher than that. We had a good meeting wtih our sales person. We went through everything line by line. She answered all of our questions and took down
We should be getting pricing back any day now. When they do the first round of pricing, they also have the cabinet folks provide a full set of renderings as part of that process. So that adds a few days to the process. Once we get the pricing back, we’ll meet with our sales professional
Now that we’ve gotten to the point where the plan is fairly stable, and the estimators can begin work on the overall cost for the house. We know that the base price for the model we chose is $510,000. So the real question is how much does our basement and all our other changes come
The week ended with a lovely first stab at a basement layout for us. Much like the exterior draft, we did have some changes and modifications. We really weren’t sure how to best arrange the basement, so having them do it first gave us a good starting point. Once we had that, we could better
Today we got back a first draft of the exterior of the house. We liked the majority of how it looked. We did have some suggestions though which we sent back to the builder to make a version 2.0. Below are the elevations and also the notes we sent back. Front Elevation Changes:*Change the front
The past couple of weekends have been spent driving around new subdivisions to look at exterior elements and styles to take some notes on what we like and don’t like. We want a craftsman look and feel to the exterior but with some of our own take on it. Here’s a bit of the list
This weekend, we had a meeting at the Ripplebrook lot with one of the Victory Homes site managers and a survey company. We were meeting to do a 4-corner stake out on the lot. Basically, it’s taking the 4 main corners of the house and placing them on the lot where they would be and
We got back a version 2.0 of our first floor plan taking into account the minor changes and notes that we had sent over, and everything looks good. We did some adjustments with the stairs from garage to the basement, the garage itself, the master closet, and a few tweaks in the kitchen. The more
This weekend, we did a walk of a lot in Ripplebrook West which is down in Big Bend. There are only about 13 lots total in this subdivision. The lot is about an acre and a quarter, and is a new, small subdivision. The subdivision seems nice. It’s nothing big or fancy. It would only
