[Altavia]

There's dozens of new designs in Middleton.

[Bogie Shooter]

Originally Posted by MrChip72

I was responding to a post referencing the historic section specifically.

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[Marathon Man]

Originally Posted by margaretmattson

Huh? correct me if I am wrong but the walls of the new homes are premade then merely craned into place. Doesn't LVP stand for luxury VINYL plank? Never saw a home in the Villages with MDF cabinets. Modern homes? The developer has been building the SAME floor plans for 20 plus years! Every village has the same homes only the exterior elevation changes. Glad you are so excited to retire in your mid 50's with a new home that is sooooo much better than what others have.

Consider yourself corrected.

[Randall55]

Originally Posted by Marathon Man

Consider yourself corrected.

What correction was made? New designs in Middleton? They are still building the same designs in the Villages, one after another. The developer probably keeps each Village the same so no one feels slighted. Helps with resales and keeps the price of each home consistent, as well.

[Stu from NYC]

Originally Posted by Randall55

What correction was made? New designs in Middleton? They are still building the same designs in the Villages, one after another. The developer probably keeps each Village the same so no one feels slighted. Helps with resales and keeps the price of each home consistent, as well.

They have added new designs, look at the adds in the sun you will see new names.

[JMintzer]

Originally Posted by margaretmattson

The kitchens in the older homes are bigger because they have a wall. In the newer homes the wall was removed to open up the space. No wall? Less cabinets!

The meaning of the words added feature? Po tay- to, Po-tah-to. Buy a home with a wall in the kitchen or a pillar in the dining room, doesn't matter. Still the same floor plan.

Extending a wall make a kitchen bigger?

Excuse me while I try to noodle that thru... To the rest of the world, a bigger room means more square footage...

[JMintzer]

Originally Posted by Randall55

What correction was made? New designs in Middleton? They are still building the same designs in the Villages, one after another. The developer probably keeps each Village the same so no one feels slighted. Helps with resales and keeps the price of each home consistent, as well.

Basically, yes.

But that have made changes, such and bringing the utility sink inside from the garage, and changing the lanais...

In the newer section, the models all have new names, so it's a bit difficult to compare them to the older models, unless you have the floor plans of each of them...

[JMintzer]

Originally Posted by Stu from NYC

They have added new designs, look at the adds in the sun you will see new names.

The new names are pretty darn close to the older models in most cases...

A tweak here and there, but there is only so much you can do with a 3 BR, 2 BA home...

[Stu from NYC]

Originally Posted by JMintzer

The new names are pretty darn close to the older models in most cases...

A tweak here and there, but there is only so much you can do with a 3 BR, 2 BA home...

Very true and given how successful they have been selling these only needed a tweak or two.

[vintageogauge]

Originally Posted by Randall55

What correction was made? New designs in Middleton? They are still building the same designs in the Villages, one after another. The developer probably keeps each Village the same so no one feels slighted. Helps with resales and keeps the price of each home consistent, as well.

You need to start going to some open houses down south. There are lots of new floor plans and a lot of the old style plans of the north are no longer available, you won't find a gardenia with pillars in the middle of the house any longer, and there are now at least five 4 bedroom designer plans available, not to mention verandas and fenced in yards. There are many villa floor plans that were never built north of 44. The quality of the material being used such as windows and doors, roofs and floors along with HVAC and on demand hot water was not available in the old homes. Modern kitchens with large islands and decorator wall mounted exhaust fans, walk in pantries, and no more white kitchen appliances such as was used north, I can go on and on but you really have to see for yourself. It's also rare that you will see a white garage door on a designer home down south.

[JMintzer]

Originally Posted by vintageogauge

You need to start going to some open houses down south. There are lots of new floor plans and a lot of the old style plans of the north are no longer available, you won't find a gardenia with pillars in the middle of the house any longer, and there are now at least five 4 bedroom designer plans available, not to mention verandas and fenced in yards. There are many villa floor plans that were never built north of 44. The quality of the material being used such as windows and doors, roofs and floors along with HVAC and on demand hot water was not available in the old homes. Modern kitchens with large islands and decorator wall mounted exhaust fans, walk in pantries, and no more white kitchen appliances such as was used north, I can go on and on but you really have to see for yourself. It's also rare that you will see a white garage door on a designer home down south.

Those 4 BR homes are basically renamed Woodsides, Ivys and Lantanas...

Unfortunately, the wall mounted exhaust fan forces you to move the microwave somewhere else, taking away cabinet space. But yes, they do look pretty...

White Garage doors? I don't think there's a single one in my neighborhood, they're all painted to match the house.

White appliances? Nope. Stainless. Which has been the norm for at least 25-30 years... Oh, and btw "White" appliances are making a strong comeback in 2023... Everything old is new again!

One thing I do like about the newer homes are the more modern light fixtures and hardware. But we simply swapped them out when we bought our re-sale, and added pendant lights above the bar height counter top...

[coffeebean]

Originally Posted by Randall55

Who said anything about granite? Not the material I chose. I used the words cheap quartz because the one supplied by the Villages' builders is the lowest grade of quartz. Anyone can choose not to have it placed in a newly built home and ask for laminate, instead. Then buy a much better surface, in a color you prefer, for the same price the builder charges you for his cheaper grade. In the end, you pay the same price for the home but you have top-quality finishes. An added bonus, your yearly taxes will be a little cheaper since the recorded purchase price of the home is minus all the optional builder upgrades.

Sounds like a win-win.

[JMintzer]

Originally Posted by coffeebean

Sounds like a win-win.

We have friends building near Del Ray...

Their neighbors built with the cheapest options available (they wanted ZERO cabinets and appliances, but could not get a permit of occupancy without them...

Once they settled, they immediately ripped out everything and put in the upgraded cabinets, appliances, counters and flooring they wanted...

Different strokes...

[vintageogauge]

Originally Posted by JMintzer

Those 4 BR homes are basically renamed Woodsides, Ivys and Lantanas...

Unfortunately, the wall mounted exhaust fan forces you to move the microwave somewhere else, taking away cabinet space. But yes, they do look pretty...

White Garage doors? I don't think there's a single one in my neighborhood, they're all painted to match the house.

White appliances? Nope. Stainless. Which has been the norm for at least 25-30 years... Oh, and btw "White" appliances are making a strong comeback in 2023... Everything old is new again!

One thing I do like about the newer homes are the more modern light fixtures and hardware. But we simply swapped them out when we bought our re-sale, and added pendant lights above the bar height counter top...

Fact. A Lantana is a 3 bed home. When they were building up LS white garage doors were standard and to have them match the color of the house was an extra, at the same time they were supplying all of the homes with white appliances and many or most of them from that era still have them, you cold not get a large quartz island, stainless has not be the norm in TV for the last 25/30 years. There were no veranda homes, there were no designers with fully fenced in yards, no designers with 10 foot walls, no designer models with walk in pantries, homes did not come with radiant barriers, on demand hot water, etc., etc., I'm not talking about homes that were built a year or two before crossing 44 as they started to improve them at that point while getting ready to build on the other side.

[tophcfa]

Originally Posted by JMintzer

??

Dam Doc, I hope you spend as much time with your patients as you do replying to some of the threads on TOTV?