Locked and relieved.

A few things happened today, but the most important was getting our rate locked in. I wish that the rates would've still been as low as they were when we originally started this process, but all in all I feel good about the rate we have. This is one less thing I have to worry about.

So check this out...my inlaws recently had granite installed in their kitchen and they selected Venetian Ice. This granite is almost identical to Santa Cecilia which is what we selected to be in the kitchen, (actually it's 1 of 2 things my husband picked for the house). Well.....after seeing it in their kitchen I found out that I really didn't like it much at all. Don't get me wrong- I think it's pretty and from pictures I've seen it looks nice, but to me when I saw it in person all over their kitchen it looked too busy to me and I wasn't loving all the gold tones. After thinking about it all day Saturday and kinda freaking out thinking about having to look at it in the new kitchen for a veeeerrrrry long time I decided about 1030pm to send an email to our SR and beg her to please see if there was anyway that it could be changed. She emailed me back this afternoon and said that she received "special approval" to make this change :) She is my hero!! I was worried and upset over this and now I feel so relieved. I follow a blogger that selected the New Caledonia granite to be paired with her Maple Butterscotch glazed cabinets and it looks amazing- so I'm admittedly a copycat. It give her and her good taste complete credit.


This is New Caledonia, the new selection.

 

We also received an email today from our PM about the size of our deck. Apparently when you choose to have the morning room you can't have a 12x14 deck unless you want a porch rail in the middle of a bedroom window. So we had 2 options- either add an additional 30 sqft (which would cost approx. $500) or change the square footage of the 12x14 deck that we selected and make it 10'2 x16'6. We decided to go with the second option and I think it will be nice.

I feel like I've been on a bit of an emotional roller coaster- a few weeks ago I was so mad because nothing was going on and now I'm just thrilled that things are working out and because there's progress and communication. I hope all goes well and pray that everything will work out.