Options and such

During our home buying process, we debated going with an NV home instead of the Elizabeth with Ryan Homes.  We were offered a chance to look at a Remington Place II which was the original layout I had been considered with NV but in the end decided against it.   Long story short, while NV homes offers a lot of the options to the Ryan homes as standard features in their homes, what Ryan homes was offering the weekend we visited was very hard to beat.  We could have our dream home with just about everything we wanted in the Elizabeth, or get an NV home for more money with less finishes.  I'm not sure it would always work out that way, but it did the weekend we reserved our lot.

I am not going to list everything here, but what we did decide to add was:

• Finished Rec Room (free upgrade, community standard)
• Optional Porch off of the Morning Room (free upgrade)
• Jack and Jill bathroom on the 2nd floor (I wanted a bigger closet!)
• Media Room
• Bedroom in Basement (free upgrade)
• Wet bar

What we decided against:

• 4' Extension to the house (Our building line would not allow it)
• 1st floor bedroom
•  We had enough bedrooms in this thing!  We also knew we wanted to use that room as a home office.
• Covered porch off the grand room (We want to put a deck there).
• Tray ceiling in the dining room
• French doors off of the front porch (We figured the doors limit the size of a dining room table)

As I said, this isn't an all inclusive list, but probably highlights the big decisions.