Flooring (with Pictures) and Wiring

Wiring

We were able to have our Wiring Appointment on a Saturday which worked out great for us. Note I thought wiring meant outlets too, but it doesn't, lol, but I will list that stuff here anyway. We got a total of 6 cable/phone ports included since we did the basement. Here is a breakdown of what we got.

2 Cables and Fan/Light-Family Room

Fan/Light-Morning Room

Cable, Surround Sound, another outlet - Basement

Cable and Fan\Light-Master Bedroom 

Network Jump from Family Room to Basement for wired internet from the router (My fiance is gamer so this was important to him and only used one of cables

Phone-Living Room

I was very happy with this appointment. I let my Fiance do the basement just like he wanted because he wanted the surround sound for a while but he wanted wireless until I pointed out to him wireless isn't full wireless, you need power or you don't get good sound. So we needed to have it pre-wired because I didn't want him putting holes in the wall trying to run wire.

Flooring

We wanted a Saturday for our Flooring appointment too but they were all booked for 2 months on Saturdays, so we had to take a weekday appointment. Since my fiance and I work different shifts it meant one of us was going to have to miss the appointment no matter if we did an early or late appointment unless we took of work, which we were both too busy to do. So we agreed I would go to the appointment without him and send him pictures for approval before I picked anything. Of course I forgot to bring all my paperwork to the appointment. Sam at the flooring place was trying to tell me the wood floor in the foyer wasn't included, but I remembered my SR telling me it was. And of course my SR was off this day, so I couldn't call to confirm what he already told me. So Sam said she would do it without the wood in the foyer for now and we could fix it later if it was included. She had me go ahead and pick the wood just in case. And it turned out I was right. My SR e-mail me the next morning to let me know. Sam said she would reach out to my SR and ask them fix it if needed. So I waited and waited never got the new flooring paperwork to sign and it was the last day for changes to the floor if I want to include it in my mortgage, which I wanted to. So I tried calling my SR and he was out of the office again, but the Lady in his office said she would look for it or notes about it and call me back. She called me back  saying it shouldn't be a problem if we miss the deadline. This had me worried. So we missed the deadline. The next day I finally heard from the Sam (the flooring lady) she replied to my e-mail, but didn't answer my questions in my e-mail about had she talked to my SR and that it was past the deadline, but did included the updated floor paper for me to sign. I didn't want to sign without getting okay that we could still included the cost of the floor in our mortgage because it was past the deadline. So my fiance tried to call our SR and he was off, but the same nice lady that answered the phone last time told us it was okay to sign. So I reached back out to Sam the flooring Lady and stressed to her that she missed the deadline, she told me to just sign it anyway and she would send it to my SR, and that she never sent the one without the wood flooring. Really? She didn't even reach our to my SR about it, and she didn't even send him the one before the fix or ask him about what was included. She was the one that made us miss the deadline. So I signed the corrected paperwork including the wood floor. The next day my SR was back in the office and called me to say no problem about missing the deadline and even extended the deadline for us to add an outlet (Note: I had tried to add an outlet while he was out and missed that deadline too). So we got to add an extra outlet in the basement that was so needed (the nearest outlet to where we wanted to put our TV was 6 feet in both directions). It was all okay in the end, just wanted to share the details. I know I get extra worried when I cant get my questions answered and I need to relax. lol. These deadlines aren't hard deadlines, just a timeline to get things done.

Time for pictures of my flooring. Note: the lighting in design place was hard to see the colors and get good picture coloring. I also picked a carpet that was discounted at first and didn't find out until the end and had to re-pick it and re-match. Someone had put it in the wrong spot. I picked dark carpet because we have a dark hair dog and to hide the stains. We upgraded the padding everywhere to the blue one.

I will include prices in another post later.

 Kitchen and Master Bath Cabinets

 Kitchen and Master Bath counter top

 Outside Color Scheme

 What the outside color actually looks like (We picked Canyon) I wanted a lighter brown but the lighter colors were for accent colors.

 The top laminate is the one we picked for the Kitchen, Half Bath, Laundry Room, and 2nd floor Hall Full Bath (We thought it would be easy to replace the flooring in these places later on our own for way cheaper)

The one the left is the tile for our master bath its level 4 (D) We wanted this to be super nice since it was going in shower and around the big tub because it was worth the cost and too hard to change later

 We didn't want a shower pan so we picked the floor for our shower note it will be 2in instead of 1in pictured but the same color. This way a price change Ryan Homes charged us on top of the flooring people charging us but it was a must for us, since it would be hard to redo this later.

Wood floor in the foyer with the carpet for both the Steps, 2nd floor and basement. 

Left is the same carpet as above in different lighting and the Right is the carpet for the living room, dining room and family room (note: I wanted the one on the right for the whole house but it was way too pricey)

 The Kitchen and Master Bath cabinets and countertops again together

 The master bath tile again in different lighting with the shelf this time

 Everything we picked out together

 Cabinets for the 2nd floor half bath  and flooring (we will replace this later)

the dining room, living room, and family room carpet with the wood in the foyer

 Both carpets we picked with wood


The rest of the pictures are just extra pictures of everything above

Our Floor Plan

We added the Morning Room (that extended the Kitchen) We are not doing any of the OPT. Windows, we hate windows on the side, who wants to look at the side of their neighbors house

 We picked the 3 bedroom layout and upgraded the master bath to the highest option.

We getting the finished Basement free (it's included) and we did the rough in for the bathroom for later. We add the doors to the back under where the doors are in the morning room on the first floor.

Our Lot and Phase 1 of Our Neighborhood

We picked Lot 80. To us it was the best choice for us.

We have decided to build our new house

We have been living in our condo for around 2 1/2 years and now we want a real house with a backyard. We have looked online for houses in the area with the features we want and couldn't find anything we liked. So we wanted to build a new house. So then the hunt was on to find a builder and neighbor for us. At first we couldn't find anything in our price range without getting a townhouse and we didn't want to settle for a townhouse. Then a new neighbor sign went up near where we live now and the prices on the sign looked perfect. So I went online and found out more information.

The builder was Ryan Homes. They had a couple different models with different features. We wanted at least 3 bedrooms, 2 1/2 baths, laundry room up stairs, large upgraded master bath and new big kitchen that was open to the family room and eating area. The Ernest Hemingway fit that perfectly with staying in the price range we wanted. So then we decided to go to the sales office. We meant with the SR and got more information. The SR had me a little worried when he told us the price of getting a bigger lot that was a must have for us. It put us at what i thought our max budget would be without any other upgrades. I thought we were going to have to settle for something we didn't want. The SR priced out all the upgrades we wanted and lot then ran the numbers for us. He even told us about a loan option we had never heard about before, a conventional loan with no PMI and min or 3% down, wow. Sounded like a dream mortgage, lol. He told us where the closet model was since their models homes weren't even started yet (i have heard this is the best time to buy because the price goes up after models are build). Later that day we drove to the model and fell in love. We talked it over that night and ran our own numbers just in case, it was a good.

 The next day we went back to lock in. We really wanted the biggest lot without having to a pay a premium and we got it. I was worried we wouldn't get it because it was the biggest lot (not counting the corner lot, which we didn't want anyway because it would be along the main neighbor road, meaning busy road) without a premium. It turned out it was a mistake and that lot we wanted had a premium, but lucky for us the SR made a mistake in our favor, and we still got it without paying the premium. This was a $8,000 savings to us. Made me very happy.

The next weekend we shared the great news with our families. My dad wasn't too happy about our idea at first, but after 1000 questions he shared our happiness. Can't wait to start picking everything out.