Hampton Lake

We had our design meeting last week. We flew into Charleston South Carolina to go to David Weekley's Design Center. This place had everything you needed to design your home from the outside to the inside. We had to pick colors for the siding and the brick. From the shingles to the front door. We had different styles of garage door to choose from and the outside lights for the front and side. Then we moved inside...

We started with the kitchen. What kind of cabinet do you want? What color? Light or dark? Detail or none? What type of cabinets do you need? Do you need a trash cabinet by the sink? How about a drop open tray to store your sponges, etc.? What about a separate cabinet for your cookie sheets and cutting boards? Do you want drawers for your pots and pans or just a cabinet? Would you like pull out shelves?

What do you want for the top of the cabinets? Granite? What color? Do you want a back splash? Do you want a design? How do you want the tiles to look and the color?

Now lets move onto the floor. What type of floor do you want? Wood, tile, stone? How far do you want to use this type of flooring? What about light fixtures over the kitchen island?

Do you want to upgrade anything?

So are we are using the same color cabinets and granite that are in the kitchen for all the bathrooms? Are we using carpet for the bedrooms? What color? What style? What thickness? How does it feel? How will it wear?

Oh, and what about the shower? Are we changing to tile or keeping the standard? If changing, what will it be and what color? Will both bathrooms be changed?

This process lasted all day! We started at 9:00 AM and finished around 5:00 PM. We did stop for lunch but the rest of the time we were choosing everything. We had to do it this way as making trips back and forth are difficult.  This should give you a little idea of what the colors should be...

The bottom color is the wood floor, which will be through the main part of the house.  The tile at the top that is plain tan and a design tile on top will be for the kitchen back splash.  The 2x2 squares are for the bottom of the master shower.  The cabinet color and design goes well with everything and the granite really stands out.

This picture gives you a better look at the granite, cabinet color, and tile.  The dark color you see is the counter we were working on and is not part of the design.

This pictures shows you all the different things that were chosen.  The carpet is on the bottom left and it is a light chocolate.  It matches up really nice against the wood floor.  The wood floor is stressed so it looks already marked up.  We won't have to worry about Frankie and his nails.

This last picture is trying to show you the paint colors.  It will be a soft green for the main part of the house with a soft yellow in the bedrooms.

Here are some pictures of our lot and of the back.

This is the beginning of our driveway or the front of the lot.

This is the small opening we have to the rest of the lake.  Our house will be one of 4 facing the lake. We are the only ones that will have a dock.

This is the side view of the lot.  No one will be building to the left of us.  This is all green preserve that you see and will not be touched.

I hope this gives you an idea of what things might be looking like.  We are looking forward to seeing it all together.  We are still waiting on four more things to be priced before a final contract is signed.  The contractor wants to build and close on this home by Christmas.  So Very quick!