Our elevation...

This is a picture of one of the houses that is in our neighborhood that shows the elevation that we chose. We'll have the extended covered porch like they do and the outside of our home will look like theirs. Our brick color is different than theirs though. But, I'll get to all that in a minute.

That ends the tour of the model home...

Well, that ends the tour of the model home that is our exact floor plan that we chose. The video does it a lot more justice, however we wanted to be able to put up some pictures for those of you who couldn't view the video.

The Half Bath

There is also a little half bath downstairs that we only have video of. It's pretty small with just a toilet and a pedastal sink, but at least we won't have to run upstairs everytime we need to use the bathroom and our guests won't either. :-)

4th Bedroom

I don't have a picture to show you of this...however the game room that is upstairs, we are turning into a 4th bedroom. We'll have to show you after our house is built as we didn't take pictures of that area, however it is in the house video if you can see that.

Master Bathroom

Here's our master bathroom. We'll have the his & her vanities like this one has. Then, the far corner will have the potty, our bathtub in the center will be a huge garden tub with a shower, and then on the otherside of the bathtub will be a walk-in linen closet.

Master Bedroom Sitting Room

This shows the sitting area in our bedroom.

The Master Bedroom

Here is part of our bedroom...off to the left of the bed on the wall that you can't see will be Andy's walk-in closet. If you were to walk straight out from the end of the bed to the other wall, it opens up into a huge walk-in closet which will house Jess' stuff and Andy's render farm of computers searching for more life forms in space (SETI). He's been waiting to move to set it all up, so I gotta give him some room. I'll have more than enough in my closet.

The Boys Room

Here's the 3rd bedroom and where we'll put our boys.

Deidra's Room

Here's Deidra's room. She can't wait to get in here as this is a lot larger than the room she has now by far. She wants to decorate her room in Tinkerbell right now, but we'll see if she changes her mind later.

Kids' Bathroom

Here's the kids' bathroom upstairs.

Upstairs Hall

This is the upstairs hall. :-)

Stairs

The staircase. In OUR home, because we chose to have the extra set of kitchen cabinets on the left side of the staircase...that side will be solid where the stair rail is with an enameled top that will match our walls. The stair rail on the right, will look like what's pictured in the natural wood.

Kitchen and Breakfast Nook

Here's what our kitchen will look like. The breakfast nook is off to the left and the door in the back goes into our huge pantry on the left and the utility room on the right. We will not be short of cabinet space or outlets in the kitchen. We get 34 lineal feet of counter top space in here too. We also added an additional little countertop that will come off of the staircase in our home that will give us an additional full cabinet as well as a little countertop over there as well. This model doesn't show that though.

Living and Family Room

Here's a shot of the living room and dining room, although we cut off most of the family room in the picture. In OUR house, the dining room and living room will be separated by a niche wall with 3 bookshelves lining the wall and the bookshelves will be facing the living room. The dining room will become the play room for the kids. The far left corner of the living room will also have a fireplace. :-)

The front of the house...

Remember this is the front of the house of the MODEL home. Ours will have a big porch on the front and a different colored brick. But, I'll get to the pics of our choices that we made at the showroom a little later.

We took pics of the model home...

so you could get an idea of what it will look like for those of you on dial-up that can't view the video we made. I'll be putting them up, hopefully today. It's a whirlwind around here with everything going on, but we're happy.