Pre-construction meeting.

We went this week and met with our builder/construction manager, Cody. He seems like a great guy and has been in the biz for 20 years. We discussed all the tiny details of the house and he gave us a timeline for everything: from when the foundation will be poured (this week!) to our closing date (potentially late November!). After the meeting we took a drive down our street to see the progress of our lot. We were so surprised to see the land has been completely cleared! Here's a great picture of the update: no trees, tons of mud, and a great view of our soon to be backyard, we'll be backing up to a nature preserve!

In "green thumb" news, I've requested a Magnolia tree for the front yard and thought ahead to ask for non-posionous shrubs since Kirby is quite the plant muncher. My gardener (i.e. my dad) has already gotten a head start on planting some stuff for me in my parent's backyard that we can later transplant to Bromley. One of the things on my wanted list: a meyer lemon tree. Yum! My dad's also planting a pomegranate tree...I can change my last name, but can't change the Iranian in me!

Design Center.

One of the most fun (and daunting) things about building a house is getting to pick all the details that go inside. The builder didn’t waste any time getting us into the design center (so our materials can be ordered and the house can start being built ASAP!) It seemed that we had millions of options on hundreds of things inside the home.

Our day started with talking to the “water guy”, trying to convince us to spend thousands on fancy water purifiers, etc. Then we sat down with the “security guy”. Having always lived with my parents, in a dorm, or in a small apartment – the idea of having a huge house is a bit intimidating and we left that meeting with a slightly empty wallet and a house with Mission Impossible style security. (at least I’ll sleep soundly at night).

We spent the rest of the day pouring over tile, granite, cabinets, carpet, fireplaces, front doors, ceiling fans… you name it – we picked it! My indecisive nature was not a good mix for this important day, but I went in with piles of magazine pictures and plenty of ideas in my memory from previous model homes we’ve seen. A huge kudos and hug to my amazing husband for his unbelievable patience.

The two things I’m most excited about? The fireplace and our beautiful front door.

Sneak peek of our choices:
(including the pretty lighting picture at the top!)




"Upward" is the grayish blue we picked for our master bathroom.




Our kitchen! Our cabinets (middle), granite (bottom right), tile (bottom left), and stone (top right). The large board on the left is with some of the backsplash options, we chose the one on the bottom right corner of that board - It was perfect and matched the magazine clippings I brought in!




The most important options in one picture! From the front is the tile for bathrooms, then the hardwood for the study, the tile for the downstairs, the granite in the kitchen, the dark brown wood is our stair handrails, and in the back is our upstairs and master bedroom carpet. The little block on the front right is the cast stone for our fireplace.

Big Step.

About a month ago, on June 13, Roy and I celebrated our one year anniversary (!!!). We've been casually looking at houses on and off for awhile, so we thought it would be a fun day to go and check out some model homes. As luck would have it, we found an amazing house - our dream home! We felt our hunt was over...after 6 months of house hunting, and 1 week of soul searching and rummaging in the couch cushions for loose change, we finally decided to build it!

The house is perfect and everything we were looking for. We were hoping for a wonderful home for our family to grow into, and we found it. I'm constantly daydreaming about snuggling in front of the fireplace, Kirby having a yard to run in, having plenty of space for entertaining friends, celebrating countless holidays with our family...and eventually turning one of the rooms into a nursery, and later hearing the pattering of little feet running up and down the hallways.

May this be the first of a lifetime of wonderful memories to come.




Standing in front of our lot! (soon to be front yard!)