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VIRTUAL DESIGN RENDERINGS

April 22, 2024

APRIL 22, 2024 THIS IS SO COOL. If you’re building a house and are not doing virtual design, WHY NOT?! For real, coming from someone who screws up a lot, you are making a mistake. A few posts back, I shared my virtual design consult. Basically the team gets inside my head, takes the house…

FLOORING SELECTIONS PART I

April 17, 2024

APRIL 17, 2024 If you read the Cabinetry Selections blog post first, things have already changed. I still like Blue Door LVP – Rome. That’ll be throughout the laundry, kitchen, living room, master bedroom, and closets. The powder room will be tile. The master bathroom and guest bathroom will be LVT, and then the stairs,…

CABINETRY SELECTIONS PART I

April 15, 2024

APRIL 15, 2024 I met with Drexel’s Cabinetry team today to go over cabinets and countertops. It’s really wild because depending on what you want to spend, this can either be a +$40,000 budget or much, much less (*raises hand to the latter*). I struggled with this a little bit because there were SO many…

STAKING

April 11, 2024

April 11, 2024 I didn’t know what staking a house meant and told everyone I was “staking out my house”. Which has a very different meaning from what I meant HA. Anyway, John went to the lot today to shoot elevations and stake the house. I don’t know what exacting shooting elevations mean (see photo…

SELECTION PROCESS?

April 8, 2024

April 8, 2024 Although it doesn’t take much, I was confused this week. It came about that I should maybe have not made preliminary selections before my Virtual Design Consultation. I should have left it up to the Virtual Design Consultants to find products within my budget based on my inspiration photos. After several conversations,…

VIRTUAL DESIGN CONSULT

April 4, 2024

APRIL 4, 2024 I had scheudled a virtual design meeting a few weeks ago. That way the second the bid plan was finalized, I could meet with them and not waste any time. Drexel’s Virtual Design Team is out of New Berlin, but the beauty is that they do it all virtually. They sent over…

BID PLAN

April 4, 2024

APRIL 4, 2024 We have a bid plan! The Design Team sent this over today. Next week, when John gets back from vacation, bids will go out.

THE ALMOST BID PLAN

April 2, 2024

APRIL 2, 2024 Here are my updated plans. We made one small change with the island, but otherwise I will have the finalized bid plan by Friday. Then next week, John is sending everything out for bids. This plan doesn’t show it, but we’re moving the fridge/ countertop in about 2′ so there’s more living…