[dotti105]

Hi Neighbors, we are the Lovelaces and have posted on this forum a couple of times. We are building in 211 lot 109. 1612 Gullberry Place.

We have been planning on building an Aspen, but lately have been coveting a golf cart garage. We have been looking at the Sunflower as an option. It is very tempting. More house for the $$ (for our wants and needs) but we are a bit concerned about the frame and Vinyl construction.

Mind you, we are not worried about the integrity of the frame and vinyl home. Bill has been a builder, Real Estate Broker and Mortgage broker in Fl, as well as in a couple of other states, and he has explained at great length to me that both types of construction are very sound, each having different advantages, with the cost of frame/vinyl being lower.

What we have noticed is that there seem to be very few frame and vinyl homes in the Designer neighborhoods. We actually think that is a plus for us in building one, but we are wondering if there have actually been any frame and Vinyl home build in our area of Gilchrist. I have weeded through over 300 pages of this thread and saw lots of beautiful Stucco homes in various state of construction. No frame and vinyl.

Will we be facing a negative reaction from neighbors if we build frame??

We have noticed that all the cottage neighborhoods are vinyl and while driving around there we did not like the appearance of the all vinyl neighborhoods nearly as much as those that had vinyl homes scattered among the stucco homes.

Just wondering what the general consensus is.

We are definitely leaning toward the Sunflower at this point as it gives us more home for our $$ and we plan to use the nook (our main objections to most of the floor plans) as a walk in pantry with the arch to the foyer converted to a hall closet from the foyer. We have also seen some great home offices set up in the nook area.

The thing that drew us to the Aspen was no nook and the great wall of glass. It appears we can add the glass to the rear of the Sunflower, which would give us the things we want. We have been told we can add a 2 ft stretch on the guest room side to allow for a closet in the "den", thus converting it into a nice size guestroom and also increase the size of all the rooms on that side.
So there we stand.

Just curious after not seeing any Frame and Vinyl homes under construction on this thread.

Any responses or insight would be appreciated.
Thanks