All the little mishaps that have been mentioned in the past few posts have, or will be, corrected. We're getting our garage side access door. Which, for some reason, I didn't think they would be able to do, and would just have to compensate us for not noticing it on the plans. Yay for not having to open the garage, or walk all the way around the house, to take out trash! It's the little things right?! Did I mention how lazy I am?
The electrical and cable has been ran throughout the house as well, so we double checked all the placement of those. One of the places we needed to correct was in the cabinet above the microwave. Apparently this idea was really hard to grasp for them when we were trying to ask that they lower where the electrical and cable boxes were installed currently.
Above is the kitchen of the model home. Ours will look similar to it. Our sink extension will be an L shape, and we went with shaker style doors instead of the traditional doors. Anyway, so you see where the microwave is, right? The cabinet above it... we wanted plugs so that we can put a TV in there. The electrical people installed them in the cabinet above the cabinet above the microwave (where the glass doors are in the picture). Cody even read the plans of how it was written, and it said, "cabinet above microwave cabinet". We were like, yeah... above the microwave cabinet. So the cabinet that is currently housing the microwave... we want the plugs in the one above it. Maybe it was harder than it sounded, but he said they could drop it thankfully. I know, I know... first world problems...
Trying to think of anything else as far as our walkthrough went, but not much comes to mind. There were a few little things here and there that he noted need to be corrected. We're happy with how everything looks. The next part is "designing" the cabinets and master closet. That's where the upgrades come in... yikes! I was a little shocked at the sticker price of what some of our requests were, but after an email back with the designer, I was more comfortable with what they were saying.
Overall, we liked the look of the model home kitchen. Ours will look almost similar to it, except we won't have the wine storage above the fridge, or the 45 degree sink extension. The cabinet pantry, that's not visible, to the right of the picture, we asked to make counter depth. It's slightly recessed right now by a few inches, and since we won't have a true pantry closet, we wanted to try and get as much space as we could... that was free. That's the kicker, free.
The closet on the other hand, those upgrades are a pretty penny. Before I go in to that though, one of the other "upgrades" we inquired about were two tile corner ledges in the master shower to put our soap and shampoo bottles. $60 a piece! So for two ledges, basically one piece of tile cut at the diagonal, edges mitered, and then grouted in to the rest of the small shower design... $120! Surely they could have just charged the $60 since it cutting that one tile will make our two ledges that we requested? We haven't decided if we're going with this or not. I'd like to not store my shower stuff on the floor, but is it worth $120?!
What we did say yes to were the closet fees. Mainly because it would be nice for the closet to match the rest of the house, we'll have the storage we want without having to build it later with a closet system, and we have the money to do it. We're having two chests of drawers built. One for me, and one for Vernon. The closet will have seasonal racks, which are basically shelves/rods that run really close to the ceiling. That way we can store any items that don't necessarily need to be in arms reach, or are out of season. Then we'll have shelves throughout for folded items, and other random junk that accumulates in the closet. Hopefully I can get the drawing of it when they plan it out for the cabinet maker.
The only other things we asked for was a bench where the jetted tub would have been in the master bathroom, and for the two linen cabinets in the house to be built all the way up to the ceiling. Currently they're about six inches shy of touching the ceiling. I'd rather not deal with dust, so they said that should be easy and won't come at a cost. If they'll do something for free... I'm all about it! We're still waiting to hear back from the builder's designer on how much we'll get credited for not having that jetted tub in the master bath. Hoping it will cover most of the upgrade costs. If so, then maybe we'll go for those pricey shower shelves.
I guess my short post turned in to a long one. I yammer too much. Hopefully next time I post, you'll get to see a brick house! For now, here's the first frost on our roof :) Dang you cold weather! I hope the weather cooperates. I don't want this build delayed!
Have a good night. Stay warm!
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