The Masters House

One of the things that I was tasked with when we signed the contract for our new house was to take the Floor Plan layout and mark up where I wanted the various options that we had purchased. In looking at the piece of paper they handed me I knew that my chicken scratch on that paper was going to nothing but confuse people. To top it off the floor plan was reversed which made it really hard to mark the correct wall I wanted a switch or outlet on.

I decided that I would take it home and fire up Photoshop so that there would be no misunderstandings as to where I wanted each item.

If you click the picture above you will be presented with my hour of labor in reversing the original floor plan and then adding color coded options to it. The options that are listed in the diagram are:

• Additional electrical outlets (extra outlets that we purchased)
• All the cable outlets (standard and extra)
• All the phone jacks (standard and extra)
• The extra door off the 3rd car garage
• The upstairs deck door
• The 2 additional concrete slabs to extend the down stairs patio
• The fence line

When I presented my printout to our sales person she was blown away by the level of detail. I did not do it to impress her but to make sure that there is no question as to where things should be.

In our last house I had marked up the cable outlets by hand and sure enough they put one in the wrong place. I caught it the same day they did it so I called the foreman and it was corrected the next day. I will be checking when they put these things in with my trust diagram in hand to make sure there are no mistakes .

Some people may think that this overboard but it was an hour of my time and was actually a little fun to build my house on paper.

P.S. The model of the house that we are building is “The Sparrow” and is by DR Horton.

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