Our House

Well, today is July 4th, 2004 and I am finally getting around to posting some current pictures of the house, we had stone edging installed around the flower & tree beds, also had the gutter downspouts plumbed underground into yard (green circle in picture out in the grass) we mulched the beds the next weekend with red colored cedar mulch.

House Front West
House Front Center
House Front East
Stone Detail

The remainder of this page is from purchase through construction and close.

Today is 11/11/2003, Veteran's Day, we closed on the house today.

After over a year of shopping Heather and I have finally made a decision. On Saturday April 26th 2003 we signed a purchase agreement for Lot #5 Block 1 in the Villages of Woodland Springs to build;

The Bellagio
Plan #8200 | 3,900 sq. ft.

2 Story, 4 Bedroom, 3.5 Bath, 2 Living, 2 Dining, Study, Game Room, Media Room, Master Down, 3-Car Garage.

Current estimate is that the home will be completed in either late October or early November of 2003. See the Construction page for the latest updates.  Our current house was put on the market on 8/18/2003.  As of 9/13/2003 (26 days) we have a contract on our current house with a close date of 11/3. 

Here are the floor plans and front elevation,

The neighborhood is the The Villages of Woodland Springs we are in the Woods section. Woodland springs is Northwest of FM 377 (Denton hwy) and FM 1709 (Golden Triangle/Southlake blvd) just West of Keller. The home will be in an unincorporated part of Fort Worth but in the Keller School District.  The address will be 5659 Redgum Drive, Fort Worth 76248 , mailing address will be Keller though.  The star on this image marks the position relative to the rest of Fort Worth
Here are a couple of satellite images the red square is where the house will be, with streets, here is before streets

The Builder is Legacy Homes, they are based in Plano Texas. 

Legacy is an Energy Star® Certified builder and has committed to building every home to Energy Star performance guidelines.  The house will be Energy Star certified by an independent testing company after construction is complete.

The lot is in the North East corner of the edition on the Northernmost edge (there is a brick fence on the back of the lot) with Caylor Road behind. Caylor Road is currently a one lane blacktop so traffic and noise should be minimal. The lot is approximately 90' x 136' (.2809 acre), this figure includes the 11' of sidewalk area. The back yard will be 37' deep the front yard will be 31' deep. The lots in this area are HEAVILY treed.  Providing none of the trees die during construction we should have, 3 trees on each side of the house and 27 trees in the back yard for a total of 33 trees, all of them are Post Oaks.  We will also have 2 trees installed in the front yard (neighborhood association rules), they will be Red Maples. 

Here are some pictures of the lot. The edge of the dark green phone junction is the West (left) border of the lot, the electrical transformer is the East (right) border of the lot. The house will be facing South. Looking out the back window will have a beautiful view stretching past Denton. Another nice thing about this location is that the homes behind the lot (across Caylor) are on 1 acre lots, most of them are 1 story, so the view won't be changing anytime soon.

Here are 3 different examples of this house from the Estates of Indian Creek in Carrollton.  These homes have a different front elevation than we have chosen.

Click on the images below to see a Virtual Tour of the model home in Carrollton in the Estates of Indian Creek.

Entry

Formal Living room & Study (study is through french doors)

Family Room

Master Bathroom

Master Bedroom

Game Room (media room is behind camera)

And just for grins here are some shots of our old house.