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Interior Preview

It looks like we’ll finally be moving to our new house within a couple of weeks.  Final inspections are scheduled for Tuesday.  Here are a few interior shots, in progress. Kitchen Powder Room Living Room Dining Room Office Master Bath … Continue reading

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Stone

Due to a series of miscommunications we have been waiting to pick out our counter top material for the last few weeks.  Since we have two different shades of cabinets we have been considering getting two different counter top materials. … Continue reading

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Rockin’ The Suburbs

If you want to jump to the time lapse video, click here to skip the details. We got a new house today, y’all! What an amazing day.  We arrived at the property at around 7:30am and the awesome crane operator … Continue reading

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Magic Modular

We visited the factory yesterday to check out our house “on the line”.  It was really surreal to see these rooms that we have been looking at on a floor plan come to life.  Since we are building modular, the … Continue reading

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Updates

Long time no post… After waiting for months to get permit approvals, we were anxious to get started.  Our builder moved pretty quickly getting the land ready for the foundation. You can’t imagine how excited we were just to see … Continue reading

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We have permits!

I haven’t been able to update the blog for a while, since we were waiting and waiting AND WAITING for the township to approve our plans and release our building permits.  It took about 4.5 months, but we finally have … Continue reading

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Home on the Range

Choosing appliances for the new house was really fun.  I did a TON of research on the kitchen forums of gardenweb.com.  The forums were a great resource, especially when choosing our oven/range.  If you know us, you know that we … Continue reading

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Choosing Floors

Oh man did we have a hard time picking out flooring!  Our house will be open concept, so we plan to have hardwood throughout the whole house.  The only rooms that will not have hardwood are the bathrooms and possibly … Continue reading

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Bathroom Shower

Since the first day of the house design process, my husband has been dreaming about having a walk in shower. traditional bathroom design by other metros general contractor Michael Matrka, Inc He was pretty certian that we should not have … Continue reading

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Front of House

After weeks of meeting remotely with our builder and architect, we have finally decided on a front elevation. We had no idea that things like position of the roof line or type of windows could drastically change the price of … Continue reading

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