Awesome North Gate home on quiet cul-de-sac and near desirable North Gate area schools! Nice floor plan, all rooms are spacious and flow well. Lots of elbow room in the gourmet kitchen which features ample oak cabinetry, granite counters and commercial grade stainless steel appliances.

I shared a while back that we are building our new home (however, the exterior is not actually what I posted, hah!), and I’ve been talking about this on Instagram.

But today I’m here to talk about the MOST requested thing when it comes to our new build – The Floor Plan. It’s the first thing you think about when it comes time to build a home!

It’s also the most important thing to nail down. Everything is based on your floor plans.

Overall there are some different ways new homes are built. There are builders who offer set floor plans and you have to choose one.

Another option is semi-custom builders who have floor plans and allow for major changes to be made.

Lastly, there is a fully custom floor plan where you work with an architect from the ground up.

We fell somewhere in between the latter two of those, I’ll share more details below, but it’s important you figure out which route you want to take.

As I mentioned, we fell somewhere in between a semi-custom floor plans and a custom floor plan.

Our builder offers floor plans, but they also have the ability to directly with an architect and give you exactly what you want.

They actually had a floor plan where the bones of it were quite close to what we wanted, but we ended up reworking a significant amount of the existing floor plan.

The main thing that drew us to it was the layout of the kitchen, living, and dining.

It also had a side exit which was a big must-have for us because there’s nothing I hate more than my kids going in and out of a sliding door and leaving their shoes in our breakfast room. It drives me NUTS!

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