Update 7/7 (Visit to Finished Model Home)

We went to visit the model home of the Lincolnshire that just opened up in Mint Hill, NC (Summerwood community) yesterday. The home looked great! The model is a different elevation, elevation C so there were slight differences (the Dining Room was smaller I think and the Living Room (study) was larger and it's reverse in Elevation B) but overall it was very similar of course. BTW, Don't you love how they decorate & paint the model homes? I really wish we had more choices in paint because I wouldn't mind paying for it just so I don't have to worry about someone else doing it later.

This Dining Room had a Bay Window

Study

Family Room & Morning Room View

View you get when you don't get the jack & jill bath

Master (w/o sitting area)

Master Bath (vanity 1 of 2)

Roman Shower option (no bathtub with this)

I love the walkway feel

Fuzzy Morning Room pic

Second Floor view from top of stairs (mine will look different because we have attic stairs going up)

My husband was concerned the Kitchen was going to feel cramped when you were walking around the island but it didn't feel that way! The model had the same appliance package except when we contracted the code was that if you got the gas cooktop you couldn't get the OTR microwave directly over it, it has to have the range hood so we went with the electric cooktop - then they changed the national code to allow it again...bummer for us as I would have preferred the gas cooktop and the OTR microwave. The below is not a very good pick, the SR was just moving in to the model so she was unpacking the Keurig and it was on the counter.

The powder room seemed pretty large!

It was nice to see what the mud room bench would look like.

The model had the same wood flooring we picked and they went with the wood stairs and so did we so it was nice to see the finished look there.

The differences I saw between the model and the options we chose on ours:

• Didn't have 4' bump-out in Living (still seemed large!)
• Didn't have Sitting area off Master
• Had Roman Shower in Master
• Didn't have finished attic (which changes the look across the second floor)
• Bonus room didn't have extra bath & dormer was smaller because no 3 car garage (which changes the whole entry to the bonus room)
• Second bath had two sinks (we opted for 1 sink so we could have more counter space)
• Fireplace went all the way up to the top (we only went to the mantle with the stone)
• Cabinets were different color

We went back to our home afterwards to compare:

• We then noticed we only had one power outlet in the second bath (& it was really close to the sink which is a shame since we opted for the single bowl ---they could have put the outlet NOT next to the sink /boggle). 
• The model had power to the island, I know my Husband and I talked about it with our SR but it's been so long that I can't remember where we landed and I would really like power in the island.
• Our SR said we would have fan controls built in to the wall switchplate but looks like the fan control is just a remote sitting on the switchplate instead...apparently (talking with another SR) that would have been an "ask for" and NOT a given as we were told.
• We realized we should have put can lights in the dormer area of the bonus (all we have there is a fan in the main part of the bonus)

After we compared everything we went on to see what they had changed since we last visited.....

• I didn't post this before but apparently our County required R15 insulation in the walls and even though Ryan ordered R15 the insulators put in R13....they had to come back and swap it out which cost us 2 days.....well, that was done. My concern here is it seemed they covered up some outlets when they insulated and even some of our pre-wires with insulation....
• They added the framing for the other columns in the Family Room
• A tad more brick done on the SAME WALL (will it ever stop raining?)