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Originally Posted by Happinow

Hi everyone. Another update, ready or not. As I write this I only have one eye open because we were so excited for this day to come we slept about 3 hours last night. Kept thinking about what we could expect. Once again we hit the ground running this morning with an appointment at 9:00 in a model gardenia, the one we are building. Heres what we did and picked out today....flooring, kitchen cabinets but not fixtures, added or subtracted lights and outlets, added a room to the garage, added French doors to the master to lead out to the pool, added two windows to the master, stretched the garage 4 feet by 2 feet, stretched the guest bedroom and bath, changed out the guest tub to only a shower, put recessed lighting in the master, put pendant lighting in kitchen as well as under cabinet lighting, added pullout drawers to cabinets, changed golf cart driveway, changed cubbyhole in both showers to the opposite end of shower, added a shower cubby hole in each shower and went to the granite yard to look at granite. Just so everyone knows, when going to pick out granite you must pick out all the slabs required to complete your house. We had an appointment at the granite yard but there was only one guy working there and he never spent any time with us even though we had an appointment. He was with another couple who took up our appt. How frustrating! Bill and I ended up going through the granite ourselves and picking one slab for our home. When we got back to the office our designerSTOLd us that we were supposed to have help and pick out all slabs for our home, not just one. Our home will require 3-4 slabs of granite and they want you to pick all of them due to granite having so many imperfections. They want to make sure you approve of all slabs. So now we have to go back to the granite yard to pick more out. Our designer wasn't happy with the granite people for not honoring our appointment. (i'm taking a breath). Tonight, I have to look at a book to narrow down fixture and lighting choices if I'm not too tired, but I am! You get to go in person to see the choices you make for flooring, paint,cabinets, etc. All of the choices are in the models which is extremely helpful. We also bought the bedroom furniture for the master and guest bedrooms at Southern lifestyles. It's such a fun process and I can hardly believe we are at this point. Tomorrow will finish up the home and meet with the pool people. We will again hit the ground running! Now I must try to relax and get some sleep so more to come tomorrow! Thanks for listening....

Sounds like a good nights sleep will do you wonders. Three hours is not enough sleep for me to function well. Great info and useful to those who are planning to build a new home.