Friday, May 31, 2013
The Plans....
The "hard" copy of our prints for the new house. The PDF files went out to the 3 builders we've chosen to bid on our project on Wednesday!! We have already heard back from 1 with questions on kitchen cabinets. With Mark being employed by Moen, (parent company Master Brands)... There are some discounts/rebates for using their products...Therma-Tru doors, Simonton windows, Master Brands cabinets, and of course Moen faucets, shower fittings/valves, and kitchen sinks. Not quite sure how they can bid on cabinets etc, when we haven't actually designed the exact layout of the kitchen including cabinets, materials for countertops and island etc..... Probably just a ballpark figure/ allowance...that I'm sure we will go over...LOL
Wednesday, May 22, 2013
Why Willard?
Welcome to Big Bass Build! Here you will be following the building of our "retirement" house! Although retirement is still a few (7, 8, 9...) years away, we decided the time was right to build. We will use the new house as a weekend/summer/2nd home until we sell our Amherst Township house and land and make the big move to Willard upon retirement!
Big Bass Drive is located in Willard Ohio, in the privately owned Holiday Lakes. Big Bass Drive is not on the main lake, but on a 7 acre fishing lake adjacent to the main lake. Big Bass Lake is very peaceful, as no power boats, motors etc are allowed on it. The website, if interested, for the Holiday Lakes Property Owners Association is: http://holidaylakesohio.com/. We bought our lots in 2007, after spending time in my Mom's Lake House, or Grandma's Lakehouse as it is affectionately known. My mom purchased here in May of 2006 after selling her beloved condo in the Sandarac in Ft. Myers Beach, which she and my Dad owned for almost 30 yrs. We miss the condo a lot, but get to use the Lake house waaaayyyy more. She has an amazing 2 level dock and the 3 sisters/spouses purchased a fun deck boat with a BIG motor which we enjoy immensely all summer long! Tubing, wakeboarding, skiing, or just driving around the lake....it's GREAT!
While the talk amongst many of our friends these days...... with all of us, closing in on retirement....seems to always gravitate to where everyone is going to settle when they retire. Mark and I both feel very connected to our hometowns and can't imagine every leaving this area. As much as we like to complain about the weather, economy, jobs, sports teams, etc. this part of Ohio is HOME. Our lots are about 50 minutes away from our house now, so still very close. Our daughter, son-in-law and grandchild...(soon to be grandchildren, Oct 22) are here! We love being able to help them out with babysitting duties and we want to watch our grandchildren grow up in person! Although our son Matt is no longer close by, after relocating to Oregon in March of 2012 we still feel the family is here. We love Oregon and the Pacific Northwest which are absolutely gorgeous...truly God's country....and we will love visiting more often once we are retired. Our Moms are still in Elyria or Amherst Township. My sisters and their families are close by, my brother and family not too far away near Detroit. Mark's brothers and their families are near too. So....we're staying!
So, now you all know the reasons we are building in Willard. This blog will serve as a sequential photographic journey of our tree filled wooded property as it stands today, before we start ...... to our finished (although when you own a home there is always something to work on, so it's never really FINISHED) home. We want to have a documented chronological progression of our build. We do have slides from when we built our current home back in 1984....and are in the process of scanning them all (and the other thousands we have) and getting them onto the computer!
As we begin, I will post pictures of different things at Holiday Lakes, since there won't be much change in our lots til the bids are in and we've finalized everything.
Big Bass Drive is located in Willard Ohio, in the privately owned Holiday Lakes. Big Bass Drive is not on the main lake, but on a 7 acre fishing lake adjacent to the main lake. Big Bass Lake is very peaceful, as no power boats, motors etc are allowed on it. The website, if interested, for the Holiday Lakes Property Owners Association is: http://holidaylakesohio.com/. We bought our lots in 2007, after spending time in my Mom's Lake House, or Grandma's Lakehouse as it is affectionately known. My mom purchased here in May of 2006 after selling her beloved condo in the Sandarac in Ft. Myers Beach, which she and my Dad owned for almost 30 yrs. We miss the condo a lot, but get to use the Lake house waaaayyyy more. She has an amazing 2 level dock and the 3 sisters/spouses purchased a fun deck boat with a BIG motor which we enjoy immensely all summer long! Tubing, wakeboarding, skiing, or just driving around the lake....it's GREAT!
While the talk amongst many of our friends these days...... with all of us, closing in on retirement....seems to always gravitate to where everyone is going to settle when they retire. Mark and I both feel very connected to our hometowns and can't imagine every leaving this area. As much as we like to complain about the weather, economy, jobs, sports teams, etc. this part of Ohio is HOME. Our lots are about 50 minutes away from our house now, so still very close. Our daughter, son-in-law and grandchild...(soon to be grandchildren, Oct 22) are here! We love being able to help them out with babysitting duties and we want to watch our grandchildren grow up in person! Although our son Matt is no longer close by, after relocating to Oregon in March of 2012 we still feel the family is here. We love Oregon and the Pacific Northwest which are absolutely gorgeous...truly God's country....and we will love visiting more often once we are retired. Our Moms are still in Elyria or Amherst Township. My sisters and their families are close by, my brother and family not too far away near Detroit. Mark's brothers and their families are near too. So....we're staying!
So, now you all know the reasons we are building in Willard. This blog will serve as a sequential photographic journey of our tree filled wooded property as it stands today, before we start ...... to our finished (although when you own a home there is always something to work on, so it's never really FINISHED) home. We want to have a documented chronological progression of our build. We do have slides from when we built our current home back in 1984....and are in the process of scanning them all (and the other thousands we have) and getting them onto the computer!
As we begin, I will post pictures of different things at Holiday Lakes, since there won't be much change in our lots til the bids are in and we've finalized everything.
Soooo... today's photo is of our lot, taken last fall looking from where the backyard will be out across Big Bass Lake! Enjoy!!
PS>>> all posts will not be this long!!
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