TwinSpin! Hello and welcome to another Gilly! Look forward to meeting you ASAP! You should be just a month or so behind me! I close Dec 5th! Look forward to some neighborhood parties with the Gilly-Flockers!! Best of luck in your new adventure!

WVMtnBoy is in his back yard planting lime trees. We're stealing his craft room design but we're going to use it as a study / TV room. He took the window out of the laundry and replaced it with a door shifted towards the kitchen so he can put pantry cabinets on the garage wall of the laundry. He had a really good idea and I'm sure it will be copied by a bunch of people adding a GC garage on the side of their house. Radar says it's raining hard down there. I hope WV didn't get soaked with his lime plantation.:clap2:

Now I understand. I see the laundry room options online. Thanks!

In the Zinnia you have the garage, laundry room and finally entry into the kitchen. We added a golf car garage the the exterior of the house and carried the wall of the GC garage farther back to make the craft room. We added a door in the laundry room exterior wall that leads directly into the craft room. Sounds confusing but if you look at the floor plan it should become clear. We esentially added a double length GC garage and split it in half with a wall. It's difficult to find a house plan (at least it was for us) that lent itself to the addition of a room while providing a logical way to get to the room from the inside of the house.

Thanks for the good wishes! Hope to meet you when you get here!

Hey Terp! Where in the world have you guys been. Welcome back! Anyway, you're right that WV has a long and proud brewing tradition but I'm talking about the legal stuff and not the kind that can get you in trouble with revenuers! Of course, if it ever became legal I'd have to try that too! Family tradition has it that my mothers family from Natural Bridge, Virginia made shine for the Confederacy so it my be in my genes naturally!!!

Why don't you guys give us a shout and lets go out for drinks and/or dinner some night?????

Hi Twin! Please don't worry about your design meeting. The best advice that I can offer is to have a firm idea of what you want and go for it. The designers are fantastic and the process is not one of pulling your hair out. They either have all the answers or can get same very quickly. So, tell them what you want and see what they say. I would shoot for the moon as far as desires because the process includes giving you a build price and if that exceeds what you want you can begin pulling things out to get the price point where u want it. HotRod is the best that I've seen or heard in that she had a sheet listing "Must Haves", "What I Want" and "What I Want But What I Can Do Without If I Have To". The bumps and stretches do not add that much to the price of the house so bump and stretch to the extent you want. Also, do yourself a favor and absolutely get a GC garage. I've talked to people who didn't do so because they thought they didn't need the storage room and now deeply regret their decision. Please get in touch with us when you come down for your design meeting and we'll get together for dinner and/or drinks! You're gonna love it down here!

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Red Eyes
 

Back in 1978 I spent 9 months on a project on top of a mountain at Davis, WV. It was called Mount Storm, and it snowed every day for 32 days. That's where I learned about a West Virginia version of a Bloody Mary called a Red Eye. 1/2 tomato juice and 1/2 beer. Those were some FINE people up there on that mountain. It doesn't surprise me that WVMtnBoy has some "home brewing skills". I can see why he swapped to Corona.:a040:

OMG! I can't imagine what our combined neighborhoods are going to be like! Someone wake me up, please:icon_wink: at least I know I'm in for a lot of fun! Just hope all the other neighbors are as excited:clap2:

Twin, WV is right. Make yourself a list or spreadsheet with absolutely everything you can muster up that you WANT. Determine which of those things you are not willing to negotiate on and those that you definitely want if possible. Then mark those things you would like, but can live without. I put my entire list on the left and made corresponding colums to the right for must haves, definite wants, and not so important. When I went to the meeting, I told my designer I had a list and we went through it item by item. There was precious little that was not doable, and in the end it all came down to budget. I did not have to give up much, and and happy with my choices as I am sure you will be as well! My only real advice is to do any additions as far as construction now and the rest will wait if need be! Structural changes are best done in the beginning!! Best of luck!

Sounds close to what I plan to do with our Ivy. I would like to extend the GC garage back about 20 ft to gain a tool room/work bench/storage area. I would lose the window in the former laundry room (which we will use as a pantry) but could choose to add a door there as well. We plan to have 2 GCs which will fill the GC garage.

WVMtnBoy,

Good to know. The Ivy has 4 different front designs and I believe our agent said there could be an additional charge for some. As usual, the one I like will probably be the most expensive.

I plan to bring my truck to TV so we can make runs to the Corona sales with the best prices.

Woo Hoo!!!!!!:bigbow:

Paint
 

Speaking of Woo Hoo, I hate to paint. When you met for the design what choices, if any. do you have for paint color? If they give you a choice is it one color or can you change from room to room?

There are 2 interior colors. White and something they call Hayseed (ecru or cream color) that's it. Flat only, no satin. I didn't want white, the other is neutral, so that is what I chose. I will most likely paint an accent wall in most rooms..... The exterior has many more choices!