We have enjoyed working with Jen the designer with Alliance Homes. I think for awhile there she agreed with a lot of our selections and then realized that we truly wanted her opinion and input.
Some decisions and selections are so much easier to make in person. On Friday morning after a quick stop at the home site to see the progress, we headed over to the current office/model to meet with Jen.
The new owners of the house will be moving in in the middle of September so Alliance will be moving out and into the garage of the new model/office until it is fully ready to move into in December. (The new owners of the current model will be adding on an indoor pickleball court to an already huge house!)
Shortly after we arrived at the model, we heard a flyover and rushed out to the deck to see four F-15s flying over. That's gonna be so cool to see more often when we live there. We also saw parachutists practicing as well, probably for the first football game of the season on Saturday. I think Chris will love being a Falcon fan.
We worked on a few tweaks on the kitchen layout, moving the dishwasher, eliminating some cabinets under the island that would be hidden behind stools, widening the footprint a bit, and hopefully adding a bit of depth to the island.
We also worked on a few plumbing selections, looked at exterior colors, interior paint colors, tile selections, and some interior stone.
The back wall (below) is the same color as our board and batten selection plus stone, wood beams, and stucco.
Right before lunch, Chris and I went with Steve (owner of Alliance Homes) to look at the lot and potentially the need for another retaining wall.
We had a quick lunch at Freddy's and then drove over to Alliance's Parade of Homes house (it begins next weekend). We liked the backlit wall behind the headboard.
From there, Jen took us to the new model to look at their standard floor option of site finished hickory in varying widths. I really want to like this selection, but there is just so much variation in the planks and tones. It just isn't my favorite.
Unfinished stair landing of site finished hickory
We returned to work at the current model for a couple more hours with Jen and then made a quick stop at Arlun Flooring to revisit the options for hardwood. It was 5 pm and we weren't coming to any great decisions so Heather at Arlun sent us home with two flooring samples and will be ordering two more samples to have sent to our house so that I can see the samples at different times of day in different light.
