A first look inside
As expected, I was away enjoying a wonderful weekend out-of-town these last two days. And now, as promised, a look inside my soon-to-be home:
When you can only shoot through first-floor windows, you don't have a lot of choices or angles to shoot. That said, when you're buying a house of this size... well, you can pretty much do the “first floor tour” with this shot.
The big thing for me was seeing the stairs: I've waited to see these stairs for awhile now. I don't know why, but I just think it's pretty cool to have stairs that don't go straight up or down (we'll see if I still agree with this idea after I've moved my bed upstairs!). However, I was disappointed to see that the landing was in fact two separate steps, not just one; I'd have thought it easier to make it one flat landing, but then it'd probably require the stairs to stick out more. Nothing I can do now and really it's not that big a problem, just another thing that you (apparently) can't tell about a house when buying from plans.
And speaking about buying, I forgot to mention that it was almost exactly one year, two weeks ago that I actually signed all the paperwork for this place. Considering that they started building my house on, or about, June 20th, 2004 (a mere three months ago), you have to wonder why I needed to sign over a year ago!
But, back to the house: from my exchange with the builder last week regarding my tile choices, I know that they've been hard at work on the interior since my last visit and should have the tile in this week (or at least the bathroom tile I guess). If I have some free time next weekend maybe I'll pop back out for another look at the interior... then again, I might play it safe and go the following weekend. I don't know if they'll have done the kitchen quite yet and that's really the next big thing.
When you can only shoot through first-floor windows, you don't have a lot of choices or angles to shoot. That said, when you're buying a house of this size... well, you can pretty much do the “first floor tour” with this shot.
The big thing for me was seeing the stairs: I've waited to see these stairs for awhile now. I don't know why, but I just think it's pretty cool to have stairs that don't go straight up or down (we'll see if I still agree with this idea after I've moved my bed upstairs!). However, I was disappointed to see that the landing was in fact two separate steps, not just one; I'd have thought it easier to make it one flat landing, but then it'd probably require the stairs to stick out more. Nothing I can do now and really it's not that big a problem, just another thing that you (apparently) can't tell about a house when buying from plans.
And speaking about buying, I forgot to mention that it was almost exactly one year, two weeks ago that I actually signed all the paperwork for this place. Considering that they started building my house on, or about, June 20th, 2004 (a mere three months ago), you have to wonder why I needed to sign over a year ago!
But, back to the house: from my exchange with the builder last week regarding my tile choices, I know that they've been hard at work on the interior since my last visit and should have the tile in this week (or at least the bathroom tile I guess). If I have some free time next weekend maybe I'll pop back out for another look at the interior... then again, I might play it safe and go the following weekend. I don't know if they'll have done the kitchen quite yet and that's really the next big thing.
