A lot happens in a week!

I had a meeting for work in Mission Viejo on Wednesday the 25th and after sitting in traffic for about 2 hours I just didn't have it in me to drive down to Elsinore. So we just skipped our Wednesday visit and holy cow was I surprised to see this on Saturday!

We went from single story to windows installed in a week! They have the ceiling fan pre-wires in and a lot of the electrical wiring is where it's supposed to be. There are stacks of dry wall in the garage, living room, family room, loft, and master bedroom. They also have the fiberglass shell for the bathtubs and shower laying around for install as well. I cannot wait to see the work that will be done by Wednesday! I kind of suspect that some of the dry wall will be installed. Eeek!

They released the next phase for sale and our sales agent was happy to report that the selling price is 11k above what we paid for ours. I can't wait to see what the houses will be going for when the very last phase goes up for sale. Anyways, that's all for today. I'll try to get a little more timely with the updates!

Moving Along!

Matt and I went down to Elsinore for our Wednesday visit. I am always amazed at how much work is done when we aren't around! Here is what we saw....

Building houses is serious business!

Once again we had to sneak in through the back.

Family room.

 Kitchen, just wait til you see the view we get to have until they build behind us!

 Living room at the front of the house.

Matt and I found this rather comical, it is the spot in the garage that you would put a door in. We opted not to purchase the door because they wanted $1600 for it and I was not about to spend almost 2/5 of our upgrade budget on a door. Now it looks like if we want to install a door down the road it wont be as hard to do, since we will already have the space in the frame. We've concluded by looking at other houses is that there will be 2 vents in this area, a small one at the top and a small one at the bottom of the door space.

 Remember that view I mentioned a few pictures back?

Well here it is.... we will be able to see this out of our kitchen window and family room window!



Hopefully we will start to have a second story come Saturday! I get so excited each time we visit Summerly. I love seeing it turn into a neighborhood when not too long ago is was just an abandoned dirt housing tract.

Sticks in the dirt

LOTS of progress has happened this past week. We stopped by the house on Wednesday evening, based on what we saw today I am so glad we did! Here is what we saw on Wednesday...

Because we arrived after hours we had to be a little crafty getting past the construction gates. Ok so really we just had to walk around the fence, through the field, and approach the house from the back... so here is our first view!

 Who would have thought Matt would be so happy over a few pieces of wood bolted to concrete!

 Apparently the construction workers were just as excited...

 This is where the staircase and the huge downstairs closet goes. You can also see the kitchen area.

And here is the downstairs powder room and living room.

And then came Saturday.. We have half a house!!!



I think this may be one of my favorite pictures... it's showing off the 15 amazing feet between our house and the house next door. Best part is there will be 15 feet on the other side too! If my memory serves correctly having this much space between homes in the exception and not the rule. Most will have 10 feet on each side.

My mind is already working overtime planning the perfect backyard. For right now it's all mental planning, I don't want to put anything on paper until we are closer to closing.





Here is the back of the house. The left window is for the family room, the center is where the sliding glass door will go and the right is the window for the kitchen.







 

I cant wait to go back on Wednesday and see if they have any of the 2nd story up! Some of the finished homes already have families in them, it's exciting to see some activity going on. November will be here before we know it!

Why hello foundation!

Things are moving along nicely with the house. They poured the concrete for the foundation this past week. Matt and I went down on Sunday so we could see what was going on. Here is what we found.

I think it looks much larger than it did when they had the dirt framed with the wood, don't you?

I took this picture to show the space between the two houses. We got lucky and will have 15 feet between each house on both sides! If you look close enough you can see the mound of dirt that shows where the fence will be.

Here is our back yard! I believe the property line goes just past the temporary pole they put in place to run electricity. I cant wait to take this from a dirt lot to a little oasis!

This little construction note made me super excited. Why you ask? Because of "no pony walls at main rail (rail M2)" They are talking about the loft. The model has rails in place instead of a wall, I love the look of them but didn't have the extra money in our upgrade budget to make it happen. Matt and I have been peaking into the other Brianna's that have been built and not a single one had rails in the loft! I thought it was kind of odd that we would be the only one with the pony wall but didn't put much more thought into...until I saw this note! It looks to me that the builder has decided to make the rails in the loft standard and will not be putting up the pony wall! I still need to confirm this with the sales agent, so I could be wrong but it seems highly unlikely.

That is all for now! Matt and I will go take a peak after I get off work tomorrow. We've decided that Wednesday and Saturdays are the best days to go down and see the progress. Once the walls are up and they start working on interior stuff like electrical we may go back down to once a week. We'll see.

WooHoo, we no longer have a dirt lot!

A lot has happened since the last update! Matt and I moved in with Ray and Marilyn, I cannot say enough how grateful I am for them letting us (and Chloe!) move into their house for the next 5 months! We moved out of our apartment on June 23rd and put all our stuff in storage. It's kinda crazy to know your whole life fits into an 10x22 space! Our goal is to save up more than the down payment and closing costs so we can have blinds installed and the backyard landscaped as soon as possible.

The finally broke ground on the 25th, we no longer have just a dirt lot! Its now a dirt lot with some wood ;o) I would imagine that they have already poured the foundation at this point. We will go back on Saturday to take more pictures. The plan is to take at least weekly trips down to see the progress but I'm thinking we may end up going twice a week since things are going to feel like they are moving fast for the first month of building.

Here is the progress that was made as of June 30th.

Phew, the construction workers know what house they are building! Brianna, elevation H.

 The garage is on the right.



The is where the kitchen will be, it looks really small from this angle but I promise its not that tiny!

Our backyard goes to about where the poll is. The house next to us will be a single story (the Alyssa) because of the larger footprint they will have a much smaller yard. You can see the difference in this picture.

Have a safe and happy 4th of July everyone! Next year, party at our house and fireworks viewing from our backyard!