New House

***This post originally from "the finke life" blog***

I don't know who I've told about this, and who I haven't, so hopefully everyone's cool with learning about our new house building project through this blog. If you wish I would have told you in person, I'm sure I meant to, so I'm very sorry! Anyway, Dan and I have decided to build a semi-custom home here in State College. We've picked out a .33 acre lot and some floor plans. We are going with the builder S & A - mostly because they've purchased all the good land and also because they make the process so easy. We also found their new E-Home very appealing, and are excited to have a fully energy efficient home. Below are some pictures of our chosen lot and the chosen house plans. I will continue to post updates throughout the building process. We are scheduled to be in our new house in early February, so we're excited about that (not excited to move again, especially in the middle of winter, but excited to be in our own house again).
This is the outside of the house. I don't think ours will have stone on it (that costs extra), but it will have the porch. I've always wanted a house with a porch!
This is the main floor. We did get the sun room addition in our house as well as the kitchen option with the island. The deck will be off from the sun room.
This is the upstairs. We will have a linen closet across the hall from the second bathroom and double sinks in the second bathroom. The master bathroom will also be laid out a little differently.
This is the basement, which will be largely unfinished for the first little while. We will have the bathroom rough in down there and we will be getting washer and dryer hook-ups down there too so I can have a bigger laundry room. We will NOT be using the small space by the garage as the laundry room, we are going to make that a mudroom with a place for the kids to put their shoes, coats and backpacks when they come in the house.
This is the view of our lot from the street. It goes all the way back to that line of trees.
This is the view from the left side of the lot.
This is the view from the back of the lot. I was standing just in front of that line of trees you saw in the other picture. You can see the Swagger Wagon waiting for me on the street.
This is the view from the right boundary of our lot.

So, that's it, really. We're excited to get going with this process. The next step is to make all the selections for the house - flooring, counters, paint colors, etc. I'll try to get pictures of what we choose. Talk to you soon!