So much for not changing our minds...

Today was another productive day and not just on the new house.  We started our morning by getting a well overdue family picture.  We can't believe that it has already been 17 months (today) that we were blessed with our beautiful daughter.  So before things get real crazy with selling/building a house; we figured we would take a few moments together to get a professional picture taken.

Also, we took advantage of the warmer weather to catch up on some yard work at our current house.  We have so much to do before we can place the house on the market; however, regardless of what happens - May 1st is our deadline to get the house listed.  So we will be spending every waking moment (except for when we are catching up on the blogs ;-) ) to get the current house in order. 

Now in between getting pictures taken and catching up on yard work; we found a way to squeeze in some time to drive around a few neighborhoods to look at the exterior of a few houses.  This prompted us to think about making some changes to our selections: vinyl siding - darker gray and shutters - black.

Also, we discussed some the following:

Hardwood floors
To save some money, we discussed changing the hardwood floors to the standard vinyl flooring, which is included in the price of our house; and after closing we would upgrade to hardwood.  We already have a contractor who installed the hardwood floors in the kitchen of our current house and would just need to price out buying the hardwood floors ourselves.  However, this is still in the discussion stage.

Porch roof / bay windows
We noticed different looks on the porch roof and the top of the bay windows.  Can anyone give us more information on this - what is the included? what are the options/upgrades?

Porch roof

Keystone above the windows
We noticed that some of the windows reflect keystone.  Does anyone know off hand if this is included or an upgrade?

Keystone above windows

Custom bath tub in Owner's Suite bathroom:
Neither of us really like the boxed in tub that comes with the house.  We really like our clawfoot tub in our current house and would like to take this look with us to our new house.  However, this one will be a whirlpool jetted tub.  We are going to visit a model house this week to take the dimensions to see if the clawfoot tub fits and then we will follow-up with Ryan Homes to see if they are able to accommodate our request for a reasonable cost.  I will keep you posted. 
 

Clawfoot Tub Whirlpool Jetted Spa

72" Acrylic Double Ended Slipper

Well that is all for tonight....I need to catch up on some much needed sleep.