Quote:
Originally Posted by ASTalumna06
Lastly, if you have the money, think about any added "bonuses" you'd like. For example, my mom and stepdad completely remodeled their house a few years ago. They have a central vacuum system. My mom (after watching MTV Cribs!!) decided that she wanted a small slit in the wall, adjacent to the floor, so that she could sweep, push the dust and dirt toward the hole, tap a button with her foot, and have the mess be sucked into the wall so that she'd never have to use a dustpan (it's the coolest thing!)
|
My aunt and uncle have that and it's fabulous. They have a whole house vacuum system- it was only about $1000 for them to put in, but then again they did a lot of the work on their house themselves.
Honeychile- I grew up in and currently live in a Ryan home. We know some people who have built with them in the past few years - most are pretty happy. I think that there are so many things that can happen when building a house something almost always goes wrong. Heartland is good, but I think for the amount of space we want it's going to be too expensive.
Thanks for the ideas, everyone. Keep 'em coming. (happy to say we've thought of many of the things mentioned - i.e. we want a big kitchen, may not want hardwood floors because we don't want them to get beat up- get something that wears better with less work. We can always put them in later).