The New House Deets

Who wants to check out the new pad? I aim to please, so here you go. Choosing our new house involved a fairly big leap of faith because our specific floor plan, Residence 6, is not actually modeled. We thought we wanted the plan 4, which IS modeled, but once we learned about the 6, we were hooked. We've taken a bunch of pictures of the plan 4, which is very similar (and actually modeled) so I figured we'd post the pics and explain the difference for those who want to be in the know.

Here's our floor plan, excuse the tiny photo, we scanned the handout:
The style of our house will be "Italian Farmhouse", which we're super stoked about! This is the Residence 5, but it's done in the same style so you get the idea:Here are the colors of our house, we're thrilled with the dark colors and stonework (ours are the stones on the left and our roof tile is the bottom left):

The big square is the main color of our house, the darker brown is the front door and garage door, and the dark slate color are the front shutters.


And now, on to the model of the plan 4. Our house will be really similar: the best feature is the outside, private courtyard with the fireplace. In the plan 4, the courtyard is in the front of the house, right off the front door and garage door. In ours, it'll be in the back of our house, and part of the big living space of dining room/great room/ outside courtyard. I LOVE that our courtyard is in the back because when you come home to the plan 4, you have to go through the garage door AND the door to your house to get inside, whereas with ours, you come from the garage right into the kitchen, or from the front door straight into the front of the house. I can imagine we'll use the outside courtyard a bunch, it's covered by the second story of our house, but other than the fireplace on one wall, is completely open. With having a corner lot, our courtyard will look out to our stone wall, and not into our neighbor's house, woot!

The view from the uncovered part of the courtyard looking into the fireplace/covered part. The main difference is our fireplace will be in the middle between two arches and not on the wall, if that makes sense.Our side and backyards will be a similar size to these shown in the plan 4. I love what they've done with it, we might have to copy some of their ideas (or sneak over in the middle of the night and steal plants...heh heh).

The other main difference of our plan 6 is that we don't have huge great room ceilings - all our ceilings are 9 feet and the plan 4 offers a huge open great room to the second floor. The funny thing about that is our neighbors who chose the plan 4 are doing the optional loft too, so their great rooms won't be open either.

The kitchen comes standard with granite and stainless steel appliances, and we're so relieved since we just spent a bunch of money upgrading our current kitchen, we'd hate to go backwards into white-tile-and-appliance-ville. The difference between this kitchen and ours is our sink and dishwasher will be in the middle island, not the stove.
And here's more shots of the model: we'll also have a spare bedroom downstairs, and 2 bedrooms upstairs in addition to the 2nd story master suite. We'll also have a loft, not shown in this model 4. Here's the 1st floor spare bedroom:
The upstairs master suite is...well...sweet! Much bigger than our current master bedrooms plus love the big bathroom and walk-in closet, such an upgrade to what we have now.

Upstairs laundry is a plus too.


And finally, the 2 other bedrooms upstairs. Ours won't have a jack/jill bathroom in between, the bathroom will be between bedroom #2 and the loft.
Isn't it so pretty? I'm so excited!!! Is it December yet?