Making the Neighbors Happy

Now the house has a porch. You can really see the shape of the house. This model doesn't come with the roof line over the garage unless you get an extension upgrade. I think it would look boring without that roof line. The big window upstairs on the left is our bedroom and the other is the game room.

This is the view from the game room up the street toward the front of the development. Parking seems like it will be a problem, but we are lucky that right down the street from us is the street that hooks us up to the next neighborhood. Since it has no houses, people can park there when they come over for parties. When is the first party? Don't know yet...


Here's trouble: Olivia is peeking out of her bedroom window. Notice that the back porch roof is conveniently located right outside the windows of the two children most likely to climb on the roof- Bishop and Olivia. We may have to rethink the room assignments.







This is the almost complete back view. From left to right you see Charlie in Bishop's room, Olivia in her room and Mitchell in Brad's bathroom (the one with the television).






Here, Charlie is peeking out of his room window and so is Mitchell. See, they have no roof on which to climb. In case you are wondering, Bishop is at work today and Brad is at the Jaguar game.







If you look closely, you can see Olivia in the Harry Potter room under the stairs.



We have air ducts, but we are still waiting on the electric and plumbing next week. The neighbors told us that they tend to work in spurts. This week was slow for the house.

Oh, we made the neighbors on our side of the street very happy with our discovery that we have 25 more feet behind our houses that we can use. I think the builders have been cheap and have led the home owners on our street to believe that the environmental buffer starts at the end of the sod line. This would keep the builder from having to sod the whole lot. Since we needed to know whether we could build a pool, Brad talked to the developer who gave us the information that the next 25 feet are available for our use.

Brownie points with the neighbors never hurts, especially when you have four children, two of whom are teenage boys.