Our new home, Duncanwood Court

On October 28th we signed a contract with Carbine and Associates to build a new home in Duncanwood Court.  It is fifteen home new development in Green Hills less than a mile away from our old home.  The development is off a dead end road and our street is a cul-de-sac with side walks which will be perfect for the kids.  Also HGTV has chosen to build a home in this development two doors down from our house for their 2014 HGTV Smart Home Giveaway!  How fun is this!

We started the process back in August after we were finding no homes on the market to buy or renovate.  There was a beautiful tudor new build  that we were considering that was almost completed but it was on a main road in Green Hills.  The home was perfect and we loved everything about it and especially the fact that it was almost completed.  While we are ready to be out of our rental, we felt like it was worth the extra couple of months, which will turn into a year, to be on a quite street which will be safer for our children.  There were five lots left and two spec homes completed in  Duncanwood  and we decided if we were going to do this that we would want to design our home and we chose a lot that backed  up to  land with no neighbors behind us.  

After the ink dried on the contract, the waiting game started.  We were told that they would break ground the week of Thanksgiving and it was more like three weeks after that.  Then weeks would go by without any progress due to the Holidays and the cold weather.  As of the end of February, they had the lot cleared, excavation completed, the foundation dug and poured and all of the underground plumbing and sewer installed.  While there was progress that was made, it also had been four months and we had been so use to being disappointed by the progress that we lost the excitement of building and it did not feel real to us.

Finally after four months of waiting, in the last week they have framed out the basement and first level and the second level should be completed by this weekend!  We went by last night  and there were still workers at the house!!!  We were not able to walk the first floor because of the workers but we got to go down into the basement and it was so exciting to be able to walk the rooms that we have only been staring at on paper for the last six months. 

We have finalized the brick and trim colors as well as the plumbing fixtures and appliances but we still have so much left to do.   After we move into this house, I am  not moving again for at least ten years.  The neighborhood is going to be perfect to raise our children in.  There are so many young children already in  this neighborhood and one of Ava's classmates, Hudson, is building next door to us.  We have become good friends  with his parents as they are at the park as much as we are and his father is also an attorney who works for a different law firm but is in the same building as Travis.  They also have a six month old little girl so it is going to be so great having Ava and Britt grow up next door to them!