Home builder will not center lights
Alicia Morrow
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Alicia Morrow
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Comments (27)I wouldn't do the double sink in a secondary bath. Storage is more important. I wouldn't do the carpet pad. Too high priced for what you get. It's carpet. Go as cheap as possible. You'll end up upgrading or redoing it before you sell anyway. Extra $ is throwing that $ away. UC lighting would depend on what they plan. DIY LED tape lights might be a lot cheaper later if you have the outlets available. Same with the water softener. If this is a whole house system, builders typically do not do the proper testing to personalize the system to your local conditions and instead do a generic inadequate one. More info would be needed for that, including a 3rd party water test to determine if your water even needs treatment. You mention LVT and laminate upgrades but provide no information about the basic flooring material and what those upgrades would be. Both are typically associated with entry level homes, while many of your other choices on your list are more mid range. So you need to examine the neighborhood and its level. You will never get the value of these "upgrades" back if it pushes your build over the neighborhood norm in building. Bear that in mind in going into this build. The *neighborhood* determines your home value in a builder development, not anything that you choose to do to your home. I would rather have 20K off of the price than most of the upgrades. The exception would be the laundry move and addition of windows and electric outlets. Everything else can be done cheaper after the sale if you are even a little bit handy. If personalizing your home is important to you, you are dealing with the wrong type of builder. Production builds are more for those just starting out or ending their paths to home ownership. Newlyweds and seniors. For anyone in the middle, doing a more custom type build will have a greater value for the money spent on the overpriced "upgrades"....See MoreBuilder Development New Home: Home Theater
Comments (9)Thanks for the thoughts so far!! While there will be plenty of projects and upgrades in the near and far future for this house but I'm trying to make sure that when the dust settles most of the key things are ready to go from day one! Also, including these things in the build/loan simply helps them happen where if they were not, we would have to wait and compromise on choice at that! Also, I already have a big project for the home theater that I need to get to, my custom sub using this driver: http://loudmagnet.com/html/pdf/CSS-SDX15-data-121107.pdf It is in a temporary enclosure at the moment but I'm looking to build a IB box with a very low target frequency. As to the build, it will be installed by reasonably skilled techs, but I will be doing the design with help. I have been working with AV since the 80s and while I'm no expert per say, I'm very comfortable in that space....See MoreGehan Homes Experience (other large builder experiences welcome, too!)
Comments (11)Yeah, no, they don't allow any interior wall moves. If that were the case, we would have jumped *all over* removing those angles and making the rooms more usable!!! :-D And because the toilet has its own door, we're actually taking the bathroom's double doors completely off, to help light bounce around in there (we didn't have a door separating our master bed/bath -- just an arched opening -- in the old house, and we liked it). Oh, and I have to ask the GC/supervisor/whomever if I can flip the hall closet doorway, to swing out into the hall, rather than it hitting the Laundry room door. I had asked the sales person, as well as the design center chick, and they both said I'd have to talk to the super ("just in case it interferes with Code"). Seriously, something so minor as a *door swing* is apparently a big thing. "Code" my rear end. This has been a good experience for me, so far, though. Lots of compromises to humble me. Good character building. ;-) And yeah, PG, we totally jumped the gun and went out to visit an empty lot last weekend, hoping to be on top of progress. Well, we're so on top of it, that we noticed the place had been staked with lot line markers and little flags, lol. This will be our second tract build, so we know a few things. This time, though, I'm gonna get the window manufacturer/make/model info (again, only the Super knows this), so that I can make sure the windows are installed properly. I didn't have any problems in the first house, but we didn't live there long enough to find out, and I don't want to take any chances in rain-heavy central TX....See MoreWestin Homes Builders
Comments (3)I think red flags need to be heeded and the fact you can’t get a simple answer to an important question would send one big one up for me. My understanding is that by the time you are allowed to go to the design center you have already signed a contract. that is not IMO a good plan. There have to be more builders in your area go check them out , like anything else 3 quotes are always good....See MoreAlicia Morrow
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