The Villages will not put in solar tubes for new construction homes. We asked. Anything structural, let TV do it. Expand garage length and width if you can. The way TV build the garage, you cannot get standard, free standing shelves against the walls without it encroaching into the garage space. We put in the cheapest carpet (must have some type of flooring. TV will not let it stay as concrete) and then we ripped it out and put in Luxury Vinyl Plank . TV wanted a lot more for this. We put in our own back splash into kitchen, under cabinet lights. We expanded the house so we could have a walk in pantry in the kitchen. We left the closets bare because we didn't want to pull out the cheap wire shelving and have to repair/paint the walls again. Put in custom closets. We added his/her closets in master bedroom. Who wants to share a clothes closet! Didn't want an outdoor lanai so expanded back and enclosed as a Florida room under air. This all adds to the cost of the house and thus your property taxes too so be aware of that. We just put caps on every room that had a ceiling fan and since my husband is handy, we were able to get the ceiling fans we wanted and he installed them. Much less expensive doing it this way if you are handy. Had TV make a recess area into wall in laundry room and then added a fold out ironing board in that spot ourselves.
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