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Building Our NVHomes Astor: April 2015
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Building Our NVHomes Astor. Our Selections and Upgrades. About the John Jacob Astor. Home Blogs To Follow. Tuesday, April 14, 2015. Our previous journey . Our first home that we bought was a new construction, and if not for the needs of the military, it might have been our almost. Forever home. Meaning, I would have loved to stay in that house for as long as necessary, it was absolutely perfect for our family. To be cozy and den-like to counteract all of the blazing sunshine we were exposed to 24/7!
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Building Our NVHomes Astor: Our Options
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Building Our NVHomes Astor. Our Selections and Upgrades. About the John Jacob Astor. Home Blogs To Follow. Thankfully we were on the same page. Our last house consisted of a lot dark browns, green, orange and red. This time, we're drawn to more neutral, cooler colors, such as gray, and light blue. I am a little concerned that our house will be a little too dreary, but the good thing about going neutral is that you can always accent with pops of color. New Haven Painted Stone w/oak flooring. I lived with ...
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Building Our NVHomes Astor: June 2015
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Building Our NVHomes Astor. Our Selections and Upgrades. About the John Jacob Astor. Home Blogs To Follow. Tuesday, June 30, 2015. Here's a quick breakdown of how it went. Step 6: We were emailed a loan approval letter. Yay! Step 7: Foundation poured, plumbing is installed, and we're now getting weekly updates, along with pictures from our sales rep. Why we chose NVHomes . We aren't millionaires, so our hopes were quickly dashed. We found a few older homes that we liked, but in our price range, they requ...
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Building Our NVHomes Astor: Our Selections and Upgrades
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Building Our NVHomes Astor. Our Selections and Upgrades. About the John Jacob Astor. Home Blogs To Follow. Our Selections and Upgrades. If there's something you want and it's not offered, be sure to ask, ask, ask. Be aggressive about it. Ask them if they are rolling out any new design choices- we were able to get cabinets that were not even in the brochure because the brochures offered in the center aren't as up to date as the digital copies that they have. Upgrades in bolded red. Note: Due to a delayed ...
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Building Our NVHomes Astor: August 2015
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Building Our NVHomes Astor. Our Selections and Upgrades. About the John Jacob Astor. Home Blogs To Follow. Sunday, August 30, 2015. Weeks 10 and 11: Flooring Drama and Final Phases. So, we've been frustrated. The design center messed up. Plain and simple. And because they messed up, it ended up costing us an additional $800 that we wouldn't have had to pay otherwise. Now, I know when you're purchasing a house for hundreds of thousands of dollars, $800 seems like a pitiful, trivial amount to g...It was to...
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Building Our NVHomes Astor: About the John Jacob Astor
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Building Our NVHomes Astor. Our Selections and Upgrades. About the John Jacob Astor. Home Blogs To Follow. About the John Jacob Astor. This page is devoted to some pictures and videos about the John Jacob Astor, so you can get a better idea of the floorplan, and why we fell in love with this house! You can see the full photo tour at: http:/ www.nvhomes.com/neighborhoods/md/frederick/frederick/villages-of-urbana-towns/john-jacob-astor. The "dining" area. You can see from the pic above that it's locate...
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Building Our NVHomes Astor: About Me
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Building Our NVHomes Astor. Our Selections and Upgrades. About the John Jacob Astor. Home Blogs To Follow. Hello, I'm Ebbie and welcome to my little, tiny dust mite in this vast blogging universe. To start, I had zero intention on starting a blog and detailing our experiences buying and building our new home, for several reasons:. 1 This isn't our first house. 2 This isn't even our first new construction home. So why am I blogging about a house that I am not all that excited about buying? Hopefully this ...
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Building Our NVHomes Astor: Week 9: Home Appraisal and Construction Progress
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Building Our NVHomes Astor. Our Selections and Upgrades. About the John Jacob Astor. Home Blogs To Follow. Thursday, August 13, 2015. Week 9: Home Appraisal and Construction Progress. Not much has happened over the past week on the home building process, but lots of behind the scenes handwringing! Quickly, and we've been wondering all of this time if maybe we went overboard, or if we upgraded too much for this particular neighborhood cluster. 5k-$10k of our home's price. Not bad! The base price (yikes!
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Building Our NVHomes Astor: Weeks 7 and 8: Construction Progress
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Building Our NVHomes Astor. Our Selections and Upgrades. About the John Jacob Astor. Home Blogs To Follow. Wednesday, August 5, 2015. Weeks 7 and 8: Construction Progress. I feel like I'm constantly apologizing for the sporadic nature of my posting, but this part of homebuilding is SO boring and uneventful. It's hard go back to the property week after week and boasting about small incremental changes that no one cares about but you. Oh look, DRYWALL! I walked in and got the best surprise- CABINETRY!