Lot Selection

I know I promised to keep this blog updated, but I haven't been doing a very good job.  It's hard to find the time when we're simultaneously trying to get everything lined up and in place for our upcoming wedding and honeymoon.  Excuses, excuses...

Since we've already gone though the process of picking everything out and are well under construction at this point, I've decided to create several separate blog entries that follow a traditional timeline as far as house building progress goes.  This entry is all about lot selection.

The neighborhood we're building in is at the final stages of phase 2, meaning that there are already a significant number of homes that have been built in the last 1-2 years, and the remaining lots left in phase 2 are almost all accounted for.  Unfortunately, this means most of the good lots had already been taken, and we would likely be surrounded by houses on all sides, with our only views being into other people's houses/bathrooms (possibly more entertaining than a nature view, but I digress).

It seemed our options were limited to either taking a less than ideal lot, or waiting for phase 3 to start and then have first pick in the newly opened development area.  Since we're already on the verge of strangling each other from living in a tiny 1/1 apartment for 9 months, waiting for phase 3 to begin would likely put my life in jeopardy.  As luck would have it, someone who had been under contract early in phase 2 ended up backing out, and their lot was available.  The downside is that the lot wasn't deep enough to allow for a kitchen/basement bump-out; the upside is that it backs up to a wooded hill and is on a quiet cul-de-sac.  Seeing as how we're going to have 4000+ finished space already, the decision was an easy one, and we are thrilled with the lot, due to its serene wooded views from the back with no potential for ever having houses behind us (nature preserve).  I am a little disappointed that our neighbor bathroom snooping options have faded, but I guess that's what the internet is for.

I make the call.
 

She gets the house.

I'm enthralled by fall.  Our house is the empty lot between the three houses.
 



First snowfall!  There's a small creek fork right behind our lot.





Sneak peak from house (don't tell!)