I like your floorplan. Very practical without a lot of wasted space to heat and cool. Your lot looks very pretty as well! Congratulations!

Welcome to Garden Web!! We love pics so feel free to share as many as you want and be sure to keep us posted!!

We are located in Middle Tennessee - so we're kinda neighbors I guess :o)

Oh and I meant to say your land is beautiful!! And your foreman is just smashing!! :o)

Thanks!

jnjmom - I'm in middle TN also - Montgomery County.

Welcome! Your house is coming right along! Looks great!

tnkcfan,

I'm new here too. You have a very nice house that is grand by my standards. I like the garage storage, generous 2nd bath, and the archways leading into the dining room. I'm sure it will look stunning when it's finished. With split bedroom floorplans, you don't really need the extra half bath and this space is freed up for other things. Good luck with your build.
Not to hijack your thread, but here are some pics of my build. It's only 1920 sf, but we're empty nesters and don't need the space.

Front

Floor Plan (reversed from actual build)

Great Room

Kitchen

Kitchen Cabinets

Master BR

Rear Porch

gpep - thanks! you're home is lovely. I really like the stone. I was hoping to somehow incorporate stone onto the exterior of our house, but just can't find a good place to put it. Plus, we're trying to save $$. We are doing brick on the whole house though.

gpep, if you move your master to the other side of your house, we'd almost have the same floorplan. LOL Here's my floor plan, what do you think? Close or what?

brutuses,

I like your floorplan. Except for the location of the master BR and the pantry, it's very similar. Also, it looks like you have to go through the living room and kitchen to get to the laundry room from the garage. Are you planning tile or other durable hard surfaces along that path ? Another difference is that since we have a basement, we had to plan for the open stairwell in the plan.

I like your wrap-around porch. Porches are so much better than a deck in my opinion. My previous house didn't have a usable porch and I had a large multi-level deck which turned into a maintenance headache. I worked on it more than I used it. This time around, I wanted to be able to sit on the front or rear porch depending on the weather plus its zero maintenance. My house is a variation on this craftsman style floorplan which was modified by a local architect:
http://details.coolhouseplans.com/details.html?pid=chp-37200&FoundID=28&sid=chp2

Good luck with your build.

brutuses,

Sorry for the confusion. I'm both zeke__z and gpep. I setup the zeke__z account awhile back and forgot that I did so.

regards,

Jerry

Gpep,

My wife and I were looking at your house with its porches and that is exactly what we are looking to do. My wife really likes the look of the transoms over the windows and now she wants that in our plans as well. While I'm not going to be rude and ask how much they cost, I do know what Pellas cost without them, so does the transom add that much to the price? Beautiful house.

Thanks
Rob

Rob,

Thanks very much for the compliments! The truth is that I don't know how much the transoms cost. It was part of the original quote and was included in the base price of the house. We knew we wanted them anyway and didn't ask the builder to quote the house both ways. The windows are Pella Architecture series. qty (4) 3759's with 3714 transoms on the rear porch. Sorry I couldn't be more exact. We are glad we added the transoms. The rooms has quite a bit of natural light even with the porch. The porch faces southeast.

Regards,

Jerry

Jerry,

No problem. Now at least I can go to the local Pella store and give them the specific numbers. Thanks!

Rob