On June 16th we had our first meeting with Kate from The Interior Design Studio and Katie and Mike-the-Builder from Modern Home Concepts to go over our selections. The exterior choices had already been made and ordered before they broke ground for the house, but we got to see samples. Plenty of earth tones including grays, clay and browns.
The front will have a predominately gray stone mix cladding the foundation as well as the exterior wall of the office and the garage. It will also cover the bases of the three front porch columns.
The majority of the remaining front facade will have shakes like the sample in the center of the next photo. Foundry 7″ staggered shake in ‘Harvest Wheat’.
The siding will be clay, windows almond but with white trim around them so they won’t just blend in. The fascia and upper part of the front porch columns will also be w hite. I am not sure I remember correctly but the gray might be for downspouts? The shutters will be stained SW Buckthorn.
The roof shingles will be ‘driftwood’, a dark brown/gray dimensional shingle with lighter brown specks.
And finally the front door will be the darkest brown wood chip in the stack, the one underneath the shake.
We will have a variegated medium brown stained hickory floor throughout the main floor, except the bathrooms and the laundry room which will be tiled. That is for next meeting through.
One other selection had been made and that was the tub in the master bathroom:
Ta-da! It will be awesome.
Plumbing fixtures were on the agenda, something that in my mind should just work and be easy to clean. Not something you fall in love with…
The plumber who does the installs warrants Moen faucets, so that’s what we went with.
After some thinking about knobs vs levers we ended up with these:
Bathroom faucets from the 90 degree collection.
A faucet from the Align collection for the kitchen.
The toilets will be elongated, comfort height American Standard Studio with concealed trap and dual flush.
ETA: After some decision anxiety we settled on the Delta Trinsic freestanding tub filler.
Now I’m doubting the square faucets.
Before the next meeting we should have appliances selected, because then we meet with Steve-the-cabinetmaker.
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