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Southern Living Oak Hill Lane Plan?

14 years ago

Hi I'm new here but considering the Oak Hill Lane plan. Anyone here built that one who would be willing to tell me if they like or share photos? Thanks in advance for your help!

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ILoveRed

14 years ago

I built Oak Hill Lane four years ago with the help of this forum. I did not build the two story plan. We have a walk out basement with a south back. With the 3500 sq ft on the first floor and the app. 2500 sq ft finished in the lower level we have more room than we can use. We love our house. We bumped the family room out four feet and had a local architect make the kitchen larger and then redraw it ,which IMO improved it a lot. The original kitchen has very few cabinets. I took a little space out of the garage and made the 'Butler's Pantry' another walk in pantry.

The garage is a little shallow overall. Should have had the local architect (yes, he was a real architect :-) tweek our plan and make the garage deeper, but I was afraid I would screw up the symmetry of the house. Have never been 100% sure that our truss co. got things absolutely right.

The only thing I really dislike about the house that did not bother me at the time is the laundry room entrance. Despite the fact that I have a lovely circle drive that should invite people to use my front door, people end up coming to my side porch which takes them to my laundry room.

Spent lots of time with architect at Spitzmiller & Norris on the phone (no charge) when I had questions. They were very helpful.

Great house overall. Let me know if I can help. I'm having trouble posting a link from photobucket. Hope this works.

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ILoveRed
14 years ago
Sorry--no pic. Someone here is going to have to remind me how to post a pic from my photobucket account.
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Tammy Peach
8 years ago
Hello, I realize this is an old post but I was wondering if you had figured out how to share you photos of The Oak Hill plan by Spitzmiller?
ILoveRed
8 years ago
This is my house. Message me if you want pictures. The house is being prepped to sell and we just had a bunch of pics taken. It's a great house. We made very few changes.
ILoveRed
8 years ago
You have to turn on your messaging in settings. Can't quite recall how to do that. Ask one of the other members to chime in.
kayhum
8 years ago
I would love pictures of the interior. How can I get them?
ILoveRed
8 years ago
You have to turn on your message. Then message me.
kayhum
8 years ago
I'm new at this! Can someone tell me how to turn on my message?
kayhum
8 years ago
ILoveRed, I think I have my message turned on now. Do you have pics of the Oak Hill Lane home. We are thinking of building it.
ILoveRed
8 years ago
Message me and then we can communicate via regular email. I will send you pics.

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