Siding follow up and more

It has been a over a week since we went out to check on the sidings, but I haven't got the time ot talk about it until now. My wife and I went out and looked at the house that has Autumn Beige siding, and yes I think it is a bit pink. In fact my wife always thought that house was pinkish and didn't realize that was the color we chose! We looked at the other choices and for a darker gray we like, but there was a problem. Ryan homes has very specific choices of door color and shutter colors that you can choose from with each siding. With the color we chose (mountainstone clay) we couldn't get the shutters and the door to be the same color unless they were both green! My wife kept was very vocal about how stupid that was to the Ryan rep. We decided to drive around the neighbor hood and look for a different siding color that we liked or decide on what color we wanted our shutters and door to mismatch. As it turns out every homeowner in the community choose a pattern that had the door and shutters the same color, so it wasn't just us that thought it would look silly to have them mismatch.

While we were out driving around the rep called her supervisor and asked about letting us have both the doors and shutters painted black like we would have wanted. Typically they can't/won't do this, but I think that since they were playing damage control with the autumn beige thing and my wife was vocal enough the supervisor told our rep that we could get both black. This shows that Ryan can bend the rules a little when they want, but I think my wife being vocal about how the situation stunk a whole bunch helped.

In other news they finally started digging. A two week delay in getting the permits. My wife and I saw the hole in the dirt last weekend. They were going to start the foundation on Monday, but the workers were a no show so they started late, but they got going now. I'll do a pre-backfill inspection with my home inspector next week. I should be able to see the foundation this weekend when my wife and I go over to look at the place. This will give us a chance to see how the house fits on the lot for the first time. It is a big house and not a huge lot so this will give us an idea of how big our back yard will be. Of course we saw all the dimensions on paper, but seeing it in real life will put a perspective on it.