[Count'n the days]

Congratulations. We are also building an Iris in Fernandina. We're on Greywood Ln and we close on 11/12.

We started by going several days early to check out the open houses and get ideas. We had the major things already selected when we met with our designer. With her we worked out the details and made selections based on what would fit in our budget. One of our most difficult decisions was the house color. Because there weren't many houses already built close by, we were able to choose from all the colors available.

I found the process to be more stressful than I anticipated. Everything went smoothly and our designer was very efficient and patient. I wish she had given us more guidance with our choices, but I think that may have been construed as pressuring us - which there was none from TV - only what we placed on ourselves to get what we wanted while staying within our budget.

I think most meetings are over a 3 day period (portions of each day). It helped to be able to meet and get away from it to digest things. She would pull the numbers together then we would know where we stood when we started the next day.

Our final choices were not always what we thought we wanted in the start. This included the model and lot. We're really happy with our choices and are excited to see the final product.

Best of of luck to you.