Options options options!!!

Well, today was our flooring appt. It went so well. The kids did great. They had a blast running around the towers of carpet samples. Our  sales rep was amazing. She was so nice and understanding with the kids. Honestly, the whole appt could not have gone better.

So, this morning we found out that neither of the Elevations (outside decoration) levels we wanted were available. We decided to go with a very basic (inexpensive) elevation and take the extra money budgeted and put it towards flooring. I am SO glad we did that. When we got to the flooring showroom and saw the "included" flooring selections we were very disappointed. Basically if we had not rearranged the budget to allow more money to go towards flooring we would have been stuck with cheap cheap  floors.  We were able to go up one upgrade level on most of the floors and 2 levels in the kitchen and morning room.  We are super excited!!!!


So, here is what we ended up with.
In the upstairs bathroom we pretty much left everything standard except we did upgrade the vinyl flooring. It was only $25.00 to upgrade and it gave us about 30 more color and pattern options. 

This is a better picture of the vinyl.

 This is the vinyl in the laundry room. We didn't upgrade it because we figured no one would ever see it.....and it will be covered with piles of dirty laundry.

This is a picture of the kitchen options we decided on.

The cabinets will be Wyoming Cherry Bordeaux. The floor in the kitchen, dinette and  morning room will be Heritage Heights Mahogany. They are not as light as they look in this picture. The show room had a spot light shining down on this table so all the colors are a little off.

Here are the pictures I downloaded from the store's website.

 And not pictured above is the backslash. I am so excited about having a back splash!

 

And finally our cabinets and granite.

I know the colors don't seem to match in these pictures but when you look at them in person they are great together.

So, next on the list of meetings is the Guardian meeting. Guardian does all the electrical in the house. I'm a little nervous about this meeting. We really really do not want to add to the budget in this area. It is so easy to get into these meetings and just fall in love with all the different upgrades and start thinking we need them. We are trying very hard to keep our budget in mind and know the difference between wants and needs. Wish us luck!