house Archive

We have been super busy. We’ve moved into the house. Finally… a month later… we got our key back from the builder. The carpet was replaced ‘what a mess’ and various painting, caulking, fixing, and re doing had to be done. We’ve already painted most of the rooms. We took advantage of the fact we didn’t have to be careful with our old carpet. Painting without having to worry about a drop cloth was nice. It’s finally starting to feel like home. I’ve been burning candles as much as I can and slowly have started putting up the few nick-knacks we have. The house is very bright. It’s so clean and relaxing.

We’ve been quite the handy couple. Ryan’s been quickly learning how to use various tools. We’ve found that Home Depot is a very very evil place. We attempted to install hardware on our cabinets in the kitchen ourselves. We thought that was a good idea, but it’s turned out to be a bad one. The first handle went on a little crooked and the second one is level but the holes are too close together so the actual hardware won’t go on. Soooo now we’re going to pay a pro to come in and fix our mess. But other than that and the scare of me thinking I broke my sink in the master ‘long story’ things have been going well.

I’ll try and post more later but don’t hold your breath.

Our house is slowly but surely coming along now. We are very excited. Every weekend we drive out to see the progression. Unfortunately this past weekend not much had changed from the previous weekend. There still isn’t a frame up. However, they have plenty of time, and we figure that they are pushing ahead on some other homes right now rather than ours.

We’ve been in frequent contact with the DFW Design Center. They have been a bit of a pain. It’s just adding a middleman to the mix and they are never well informed.
They called to tell us that the carpet we selected was being discontinued and that we had to choose another carpet. We went out to look at other options and the 4 others that there were initially were gone also. There was not a color or quality that was the same to what we chose. We left in frustration and made a few phone calls to the builder, our sales guy, and the design center. We were then told they did have enough carpet. Then we were called and told that the carpet would be coming from 3 different dye lots.

THEN after many more trips to look at different carpet samples and many more phone calls we were informed that they did in fact have enough carpet for our house.

From our various phone calls we found out that the design center just was not doing their job. If they’d gotten all the information about what was going on before contacting us, we could have saved about 8 hours of our time.

Hopefully there will be no more situations like this. We’ve already experienced a similar situation with our cabinetry ‘going through a reselect process and getting mixed information from the design center and builder’.

I’m still pleased with Highland homes due to the fact that they are usually the ones that fix the problem and are always trying to accommodate us. Just beware of middleman.

We bought a new house! It\’s a Highland Home. We\’re having it built from the ground up and are very excited about finally getting out of apartment living. We\’ve had enough of poor maintance, outrageous rent, and the smell of smoke coming up from our downstairs neighbors. So far our experience with Highland has been ok. The initial sales rep we spoke with didn\’t have a clue. She told us that features were included which actually weren\’t. They have however, thrown those items in for us at no charge. So right now there is a clean slate and we\’re starting to roll on the project. We\’ve finished our consultation at the design center and plan on meeting with the builder later this week *hopefully*. Click here for pictures of our very own pile of dirt.