Elevations

I hope everyone had a good Thanksgiving...

Our builder, Dennis, is back from his vacation and sent us an updated pdf of the front, sides, and rear elevation of the outside of the house.

We're going to revise the rear elevation a bit to make more of the great room's wall all windows, and the 4 tall windows on the right elevation will be replaced by two smaller windows which will be just above the cabinets/shelving that are on the inside on other side of the fireplace. 

But as far as overall appearance, this is what it's going to look like. We're going away from any brick on the house to a part stone exterior on the front only. The look of the stone should help it fit in a bit better with the woods being all around it. Dennis also mentioned that he'll expect the re-bids to be back in about 3 weeks, so we should have the numbers back before the holiday.

I'm going to meet Dennis at the lot tomorrow to see if the trees Robin and I would like to be able to keep will actually be far enough away from the house to be kept or not.

Paul

Houston, we have a floor plan!

Well, that didn't take long.. :)

After my last post and talking to our builder, he started on "shrinking" the square footage first thing Monday morning... and by Monday noon had an updated plan back to us.

After several back and forths between us and him we arrived at what appears to be our "final" floor plan.

Our builder is going to be away for a week or so, but when he gets back the next step is he'll work up a front elevation and then once that is done he'll send this out for re-bidding.

In the meantime I'll get the guys here at my workplace to stake the corners of the house on the lot and work on a site drainage plan. Also this week, there will be some trees cut up and gotten rid of. For right now that will be only the dead ones and there few that are down from a storm earlier this year. 

Paul