Stalking the Avalons & Photos!

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The model we chose to build, the Avalon, is not a commonly built home here in the Rochester area or anywhere from what we can tell. In our initial excitement of a new home we shamelessly scoured the internet for photos, floor plans, blogs, videos...basically anything to give us more information or visuals of our future Avalon.  To say the least, we were pretty thorough in our search. I would like to think we resemble private investigators or detectives, but if I'm being completely honest we are nothing more than skilled stalkers (my husband is more talented in this department than I) Our hunt lead to a few finds...

We discovered two blogs written by couples who had previously built Avalons. We reall enjoyed reading those (links to blogs below)! My husband also found a video tour of an Avalon located in VA. We have watched the video so many times I've lost count! Darryl has it memorized. The link is below if you want to check it out!

Despite our enthusiasm for the few things we found on the web, we really just wanted to physically walk through an Avalon. We expressed this to our SR and she set up a walk-thru of an Avalon being built in the lot right next to ours! This appointment included our first meeting with the PM Greg. Greg took his time walking us through the Avalon build and explaining what we can expect in our layout based on our own structural changes and add-ons. It was awesome!

Yes, we have had some major issues with RH to this point, but this meeting definitely renewed our excitement for our future home. Our pre-construction meeting is scheduled June14th! Woooo- hooooo!


And the products of our mad good stalking abilities (there's more  photos, I'll ask Darryl to add them when he gets time):


                        This is the Avalon we walked through. That pile of dirt to the right is our Lot #6!

Floor Plan Main Level

Floor Plan Upper Level

Floor Plan Lower Level
An Avalon Kitchen - Ours will be this layout and I love it!




To view  MORE PHOTOS of Avalons check out this slideshow a SR in VA put together for us! 
http://play.smilebox.com/SpreadMoreHappy/4e4455794f544d794d6a493d0d0a

A Video Tour of an existing Avalon:

Blogs by other Avalon owners: 

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