Love the stone on your house Summer! Very pretty!

Very true Nikki. I too have lots of light. There are so many large windows everywhere. It also nice because it is lots of diffused lights, which I really like. My house faces north.

baedwards41

could you share your floor plan modifications?? Sounds very intriguing, but I'm having a hard time picturing the changes! Lovely progress!

Tim, I will work on getting some pics for you of floor plan changes. Some of the upstairs changes are on paper but most of the downstairs changes were done on the fly when doing the framing.

Debra KHE,

Thank you so much! The upstairs is what I am most interested in seeing.

Current house is finally under contract, pending inspection...hoping the deal gets done so we can officially begin planning.....so many great ideas in this thread it's going to be hard to pin down exactly what we want to do!

Laying floors and working on trim!

Taconichills.... Hi! You and I have several paint colors (walls) in common. I’m debating which white for kitchen cabs, trim, and ceiling. May I ask which white(s) you chose and what finish? Thank you!!

Summer, great looking floors. Very cool that you decided to go with a full tile on the first floor. I wrestled heavily with doing that and switched at the last minute. Make sure you do the bucket test. Take any 5 gallon bucket and slide it across all the floors to make sure none are slightly sticking up. That bucket should slide everywhere without catching any lips.

Susan, we chose Decora Extra White for our cabinet color, and Bombay for the center island. For al the trim in the house we just went with white, but the sheen was a huge disaster. We used Benjamin Moore Regal select semi gloss for the trim, which the painter never used on trim before, and it was awful. Showed heavy brush strokes and was way too shiny. They did all the trim in the house and the painter actually agreed it looked terrible and had to sand the paint off the trim of the entire house, which is a monster amount of trim. We then switched to the next level down in Benjamin Moore and chose Satin sheen which it was much better.

The main color for the house that we chose was Balboa Mist, and it really is beautiful. We couldn't be more happy with the color. Perfect blend!

Taconichills -- Goodness... That sounds like a painting nightmare with the trim! But I'm happy it all worked out in the end!! Thank you so much for the information re: paint color. My first floor is supposed to be Balboa Mist too (they start painting next week), but I've been getting nervous about it. It shows up ever so slightly purple, even though the first floor is one big room (kitchen/living area) with tons of windows. No one else is seeing the purple, so maybe I should trust it will work out fine.

I've never seen a hint of purple under any lighting condition, sober or drunk.

Good to know!!

Thanks Lindsay!

The specs say 3x5 Travertine Lite. I’ll check with the tile guy and see if there is a specific name brand or number.

Summer Woodard, the outside fireplace on back porch looks amazing!

A few more pictures to share! Hope to have the CO on Monday!

Living room fireplace

Jen Masterman Pankow, Your home looks Beautiful! You really have great taste. Big fan of all your picks.

Everyones progress looks great! I like seeing everyones different touches and designs.

I have been at a standstill on the outside. I have been waiting for the pool to go in(which has brought the hardest decision to be made yet, pool color). They started last week and should be done by Labor Day. I put in a little grill station with fridge and sink. Once the pool is done, the lawn can finally be tackled and then the driveway can be paved. It has been so frustrating looking at the mess outside.

I have seeen is house in person and it more house than I want with the upstairs, but a awesome house. I liked the main floor feel for the most part, for those that have built it, if you were taking this same floor plan and making it a ranch, and you were being honest, what would you have drawer change for you? I was planning on doing a office in the formal and altering the dining nook to accommodate a nice sized table and making the study an extra bedroom. Does this main floor end up around 2500 feet?

Johnny I think the downstairs is probably closer to 2000 without upstairs and garage bonus.

Now that we are in I hope to post some “finished” pictures soon once we’ve completed unpacking.

It’s been a while since I’ve been on the site and traffic has slowed down, but I did want to share a photo of our finished home. We moved in this past August and are loving the home and floor plan!

Would love to see more pictures Summer of finished product or anyone else building this plan. It looks beautiful!

Please forgive the phone pictures and “lived in” look but I hope these are helpful for those still in the planning and building process!

foyer/front door

L stair case and The bonus room on left at top of stair case that isn’t in the original plans

Dining room from the butlers pantry

Butlers pantry from dining room looking into the kitchen

Looking into foyer/living room from front doors

Vaulted Living room from kitchen

Wood hood vent

Breakfast nook off kitchen

Laundry room kept as it is in the original plans

Vaulted Master bath

Kichen from living room

Summer it is all Beautiful!

Anna yours is Beautiful as well, have been following you on Instagram and I have loved watching everyone's progress. This is a beautiful house plan and I have loved seeing the different ways things have been done and everyone's style. No matter what the style it is all Beautiful! Wish you all many Blessed years in your forever homes.

Hello all! We just found this thread and are smack dab in the middle of building Crystal Falls. Sheetrock is starting today! We live in the PNW about an hour north of Seattle on a lovely 10 acres, less than a mile from the Puget Sound.

Read through each & every comment. What a wealth of info and so fun to see everyone’s individual touches on the plan.

We made a few adjustments to the original & may have made a couple more had we found this thread prior. BUT, extremely happy and looking forward to the finishes now that sheetrock will be in shortly.

Wow! I am so excited to find this thread and pictures. We just are starting to build this model in Erie, CO (10 miles east of Boulder and just north of Denver) I love looking at all of your beautiful homes and getting some perspective on how ours will look too.

Great to see a few more people building this beautiful house. Please share pics as you progress. And please remember my important tip of buying pepto bismol in bulk.

It is a long process finally getting the last pieces in order. I am now doing the entire acre and a half of lawn over twice since the first lawn last fall didn't take because the night we did the seed we got the worst storms and it got washed away. We hydroseeded again last month and its finally getting green. Now its time to pave the driveway and put an end to the constant dirt that gets brought in the house.

Taconichills your property is beautiful, and love seeing it with the pool. I love all of the different ways everyone has changed this plan. I am sad I did not see this feed when we were modifying our plan with the engineer, but excited to watch our home come to life. We only have a foundation and in ground plumbing done so far. I will post progress as we go.

Hi Everyone,

My husband & I started building the Crystal Falls in Sept 2018. We are on 22 acres just outside of Atlanta. We had the acreage graded & the walls poured when our beach house was hit by hurricane Michael(that has been a nightmare). However, we are now starting back building. We will be framing in two weeks. Love everyone’s photos & ideas of this gorgeous house plan. We are so excited! Here’s a sneak peak of where we are currently with our dream home!

Jen Masterman Pankow I am curious about your staircase cost & complexity of the construction? I can’t seem to find anyone who wants to take “a Go” at it. We will be at a standstill until I do, the staircase is definitely going in as the plan calls for. In my opinion, the fireplace and the staircase are the two statement pieces of his house plan & the reason why we chose to build it. Where did you build your home?

Curious if for those who have built this home, if in your opinion the roof lines can be simplified and would it still look as good (to make it less costly to build). I like the floor plan for the most part, but would be concerned in our setting that this look may not fit in well. Also could you see it with the 2 other bedrooms on the main floor on the side where the family room is, maybe even with a Jack and Jill bathroom (so without a second story)?

Hi! We are just getting started with crystal falls! some modifications that we made were a straight staircase, we added 2 bedrooms and a loft upstairs and a bathroom in each bedroom (one of them being jack and jill).

We did lower the ceiling height downstairs from 10 ft to 9 ft.

We are hoping to get started in the next few month, pending building permits!

We are also building this elevation. We made interior floor plan changes downstairs & up, as well. This has been a very challenging experience so if it's helpful I would be happy to post some of our pictures too. It's been inspiring to watch your homes evolve and nice to see so much openness, encouragement and support. Please keep your progress pictures coming.

I would love to see your progress pictures littlefeat31!

we haven’t started yet, hopefully in the next few weeks once we get passed all the red tape!

Rjinga none of those items you listed would work with this house plan. It’s changing it completely & to me takes away from the beauty of this house.

Please keep posting pics. We are modifying the plans now and hope to start building end of year.

Our Crystal Falls, April 2019