This is the outside of the house. Take away the brick and make it all the blue paneling and that's what it looks like. It may not be blue...we haven't decided on the color. The part with one window is the 2nd bedroom and the part with the two windows is the two car garage. Based on the lot, imagine those switched.
That's the upgraded front door. While yes it is pretty, we are getting the standard door. We are not sure if we like people being able to look through our front door if we are not home. The door to the right is into the 2 car garage.
View once you step into the front door. The wood is standard. The carpet is upgraded, we will get standard. Immediately to the right you have the half bath and utility room and to the right is the opening to the bottom 2 bedrooms. Ahead is the dining room to the left, stairs to 2nd floor on the right, living room straight ahead.
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| 2nd bdrm with view to front yard on left, 3rd bdrm on right. Bath and closet in the middle |
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| The bedroom on the left |
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| First full bath |
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| Linen closet in First Bath |
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| Coat Closet (builder put too many shelves here) |
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| The closet which is the same in the 2nd bdrm |
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| 3rd bedroom |
The stairway to heaven :)
The kitchen is connected to the dining room like it should be.
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| The table is in a bay window which I love |
Make the cabinets birch same color though, take the marble counter top away, put in a gas stove, take out that refrigerator and that is the kitchen. For now the refrigerator is going to be basic but we would upgrade that later as we save for it. Hardwood is standard. Oh, push back the left island a foot so the fridge is actually part of the room and that's what the kitchen. We may put marble in years from now (if we buy it).
View of the patio
View of kitchen from living room.
Master bedroom. You get to the master bedroom through the living room. Stairs to the right, living room to the left.
Master bath. We each get our own sink :) Everything is the same here except take out the tile. Tile is being done by our friend who used to do it for a living. Everything in this house that is tile will be vinyl until our friend does it for us.
The ginormous walk-in closet. Seriously...it is almost as big as the bedroom itself.
2nd floor loft option which we are doing. Brian is showing me the secret attic space we hadn't seen before
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| 3rd full bath |
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| 4th bdrm which we will use as a computer room |
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| The closet to 4th bedroom |
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| View from down the stairs |
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| I figure we put a nice painting there or something |
There are a lot of upgrades we have chosen not to do. The tile because we can get it a lot cheaper through our friend. The upgraded carpet because standard is just fine for now. Finishing the garage because while that would be nice it isn't necessary and can be done later relatively easy. Basic appliances except for the gas stove. This gives us time to research, save and buy what we decide is the best refrigerator or washer/dryer or dishwasher for us rather then what the builder thinks is an upgrade. This place is natural gas so we are going to go with a gas stove from the get go as we think that will just make our lives easier and we want to be able to use the natural gas immediately. Also we will be sprucing the place up and adding things and if we can live without the extras and get them put in at a lower cost then what the builder would charge we would be saving money and putting more equity into the home then we would otherwise.
The next house doesn't as many things standard. We can get them but we would have to pay more. Like the hardwood. That is all an upgrade. The siding on the house is vinyl where it is cement fiber board here. The second house is cheaper but not by much. After crunching numbers this place so far is only $7-$60, depending on which calculator you use, more then the Summerlyn one. If we bought one in Summerlyn we would be buying one of the more expensive units in that community which isn't preferred if we ever had to sell. If we bought in Brighton we would be one of the cheapest units in the community which would help us if we had to sell. Our preference is definitely Brighton but we shall see what it looks like in Summerlyn is on Saturday and I will post pictures of that as well. The sales lady for Brighton is putting on a courtesy hold on our lot as she is going out of town until Sunday and doesn't want her colleague selling it in case we wanted to purchase it over the weekend. We are meeting with the VP of Mortgage Lending at BofA on Saturday. He has been very helpful and Brian and I want to sit down and meet with him. We aren't signing anything, we still have a couple more things that need to fall into place before we do anything like that, but we need a face to face chat.
This is the lot plan of Brighton Lakes. We would be lot #82. It is hard to see but on the far left side, on top, there is a cul-de-sac in purple. Right next door there is a cul-de-sac in orange. #82 is the middle on in the cul-de-sac. It is a pie shape. 78ft at the short end, 120ft at the length. The house needs to be set back 20ft due some regulation. The house itself is 70ft. the patio adds another 10ft and so the back yard is about 10 ft wide but really long. Because it is a pie shape the corners are really big and there is a fire hydrant on our property so the garage has to be on the left rather then the right so that makes the right side yard a good size and it has a good sized front yard. There is also a drainage easement as there is a river in the back yard. There is another 10ft wide piece of land right behind ours that we wouldnt own but could mow/take care of and use that as backyard space making it 20ft back there rather then 10. We would have to be careful with little ones as we could only put up a fence at the edge of our 10ft back yard and the river would be a concern but the river might be fun as the kids get older. We are in stroller distance from the pool and community center and the front yard is pretty big so we could probably just play there. Not our dream lot but the best lot they have open. Brian would be fine with less yard. I would have liked to have less side yard and more back yard but you can't always get what you want, especially with your first house. The yard is plenty just not in the exact area I would have liked. It also has road just on the other side of the easement. This road is a very busy road 2 miles before this development but it becomes a two lane road by the time it reaches us and it isn't used as much as you would think. Anyway, you can hear some cars but it is a lot quieter then where we live now and we are further back from the road then this lot. Neither Brian or I think the noise of the cars is an issue.
I have to say the sales lady was very good and patient with me and helpful to me when I was trying to visualize the lot. I forgot to take a picture but I dont think it would do much good. I could see the space but I couldnt see the house on it and I didnt want to agree to buying it if I wasnt sure the lot would work well enough. She showed us as best she could all the lines, was able to follow my thinking and was even able to show us our house type with the garage on the left which is not the standard. She is a sales lady and she is trying to make the sale so one would think that she would do anything especially in this economy but some sales people arent that motivated. She certainly is and definitely made me feel like she was going above and beyond to make sure both of us were sure of what we were thinking about. It was definitely good we walked the lot because we did not know about that easement before.
I will post with more pictures and updates on Saturday.
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