Afternoon. This morning you spent three
hours picking out colors, interior and exterior, floors, cabinets, fireplace, barn
doors, all kinds of stuff. What's left tomorrow afternoon are carpets for the
bedrooms, the bathrooms (tiles/floors), appliances and more stuff. We ate the
north Panera in Westerville and you are waiting for Carol and Kim to look for a
dishwasher and refrigerator at Home Depot across the street from Panera before
heading back to Kim and Paul's. Everyone is feeling good about the choices so
far. Tomorrow, when you finish up you have decided to wait a week before
signing (no charge) in case you want any changes. - Amorella
1406 hours. I was pleasantly surprised how quickly we made our choices;
it is a good thing we stopped in a couple days last week in advance. The
exterior worked exceedingly well in that we were limited in choices because of
what the neighbors have picked. M/I does a good job making sure the community
does not look cookie cutter or barracks-like. Exterior designs and colors
cannot look the same for two houses on either side and/or directly across the
street. This is one thing we liked with our own Mason development. You might
see a similar model to your own on down the street, but even then some aspects
will be different to term of location of garage, colors, design changes, etc. One
change we made today is that the kitchen cabinets have a modern twist while the
barn floor effect in the wood floor gives the interior a laid back attitude. The
sliding barn doors at the entrance to the study are painted the same color as
the kitchen cabinets -- a medium umber (tree bark-like color with more brown
than gray). The interior doors are white and quite tall as the first floor has
a ten foot ceiling, the second floor, nine foot. The trim inside is a soft
white with fancier crown molding throughout the first floor (all the models
have this). Mostly it will look classical (Sears-like) craftsman but with a
modern blend.) Basically, it is a story and a half bungalow of the
thirties/forties.)
That's as you envision the house though
nothing will be done to the lot until November. - Amorella
You are now at Lowe's at Polaris checking for a dishwasher and
refrigerator. - Amorella
1445 hours. I feel like it is time for a nap. It is
hot out in the sun -- the windows are down and the sunroof back about an inch,
but the asphalt parking lots are really warm with the 85 degree temperature.
Post. - Amorella
1449 hours. I have to admit building a house is
exciting, always has been for us, but it is such a focus, always something to
think about or to measure or count. It is rather embarrassing because a house
is such a piece of nothing but material goods. Now, the design aspects give a
sense of aesthetics to the house. I like that aspect. Form and function. Good
stuff. Art and aspects of poetry play a part. A clean and modest appearance
throughout is important. Even the crown
molding needs to be dampened -- a softer white trim with light beige walls so
they are not so pronounced. I remember the white ceiling molding on both of my
grandparents' houses, both built between 1900 and 1910 I suppose. The interior
windows were trimmed out also. At the time it seemed like an awful lot of white
paint, and in those days of the forties I remember a lot of wall paper also.
Same solid white doors though. The bottom framed in a square with the top
framed with three sides of a rectangle and a curved top accent on the
doorframe, almost like the outline of a tombstone. So, we are going with that
look on the interior doors. The door handles are dark bronze. I'm trying to
recollect this into my head by writing it down.
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