First pics of our new "home"

Well, it's not really our "home" yet, but this is one of the versions available of the house we will be building. It is called the Bainbridge, hence the name of this blog. We have chosen Elevation A, which is a flat front version of this house. When we come across a more accurate picture of the style we have selected, this post will be updated. One other change: our garage will be on the left side of the house. Grand total, the house is just over 2,100 sq. ft. with 4 bedrooms and 2.5 baths.

This is where we will be building. It is currently known only as Auburn Meadows Lot 205, but it will soon be known as XXX Spartan Drive. Right now, we only know the street name. The house address hasn't been assigned yet, but I'm sure we will know soon enough.

There are 2 little specs at each edge of the picture. Those are the kids standing on what we think will be our property lines. The tire tracks behind the car (across the street) are about where our driveway will be. The tree line you see is about 1/2 way back on our property. All together, we will have 0.829 acres, over half of that will be trees. The great thing about our trees is that they are not in a conservation area. In other words, if we decided we wanted to clear-cut our whole lot from front to back, we could. The only repercussions we might suffer would be picketing by Greenpeace or any of the other assorted environmentalist whackos out there today. Note to environmentalist wackos: We have absolutely NO intention of clear-cutting our lot. The above example was given for illustrative purposes only.

We are the first people to buy a lot in this development. They have only graded the roads so far and marked the approximate lot locations, but on a drive by this evening, we saw the beginnings of the infrastructure (I suspect they were manholes for sewer and water lines, but I'm no expert). Because we bought before they have even laid the roads, sewer, water, gas, phone, and cable lines, this should take an unusually long time to build. We hope to move in somewhere around April 2009.


Just for kicks, I thought I'd throw in a picture of the current view from what will be our front door. I sure hope the view improves.....

Marianne says she likes this view the best and that we have the most beautiful dirt she's ever seen (and a lot of it).