Love the home very good choice. Love the white cabinets. I think adding extra cabinets in the laundry room would be great. Can't have enough space. Love the white countertops as well. You have a fabulous place to call home.
Thank you so much. You are exactly correct about the extra cabinets in the laundry room. I believe it will be a beautiful added feature to the room. It truly is a work in progress. Thanks again for your sweet compliments. Blessings to you and your family. :)
Your house is beautiful! It’s not easy to find one with grey tiles in the bathrooms, and your newly painted grey walls make it even more unique. Thanks for the tour.
Great video.The doggies are so cute. Everything is looking beautiful. The kitchen is so nice and bright and your counter top is huge! The master bedroom and bathroom are also spacious and beautiful. Love all the photos and the service memorabilia. Very lovely. Warm wishes for much happiness.
Thanks so much for your encouraging comments and the puppies enjoy being with us so we just let them be a part. We did have to edit out a few outbursts but for the most part they were great. You mentioned a few areas like the master suite and the counter/island. For us, these parts of the home are really special. The counter/island in the kitchen is the hub and we forgot to video the functional side but it is very well laid out. Thanks so much for watching and commenting.
You two are an adorable couple. I love how you both speak so sweetly to each other. Your new home is just lovely! May you enjoy many happy years there. ❤
Thanks for sharing your beautiful new home! My sincere condolences on your daughter’s passing. So heart breaking. Prayers for your & your family’s healing. I have an idea you may want to consider. Additional storage is always needed in new homes. So, the two standard-size (30” tall) wall cabinets in your kitchen may fit well in your laundry room possibly with a small hanging rod against the wall too. The cabinet to fill in above your laundry sink could be hung high (stepped up) to the ceiling to give you clearance space under it at the sink. Removing & re-using these two wall cabinets would save money & waste & clear out the kitchen wall for two new 42” tall cabinets to match. Then you could get three more 12” cabinets to fill in above the micro, fridge & pantry just like the existing ones above the micro & fridge. The result would be full cabinets to the ceiling to give you lots of out-of-season or seldom-used storage & a very high-end wall full of cabinets up to the ceiling. Alternatively, of course, you could possibly have enough kitchen wall space to simply add an entire row of 12” cabinets above the kitchen cabinets. Then you’d still need to buy more wall cabinets to fill the laundry room. Just thought I’d share this as a possibility in case you haven’t considered it. Since your house is still brand new, the same cabinets should still be available. The reason I mention this is that 42”tall cabinets have the advantage of having the extra 12” in height accessible & visible each time you open that one 42” tall door-rather than having to climb up to open a separate 12” door to see & access inside. You could sketch out the cabinets as boxes on graph paper to get an idea what each choice would look like. Hope this helps you! I enjoy your videos & I had not seen the Ottawa before. Very nice! Congrats!
Thanks for your encouraging and comforting comments and always for your prayers. We appreciate so much you sharing your insight about the cabinets and your excellent recommendations. Your ideas are really thought provoking and give us quite a bit to consider. We are definitely thinking of adding cabinets to the laundry room, but had not thought of reconfiguring the kitchen cabinets. So glad that you like the videos and we truly love the Ottawa model and as your suggestions highlight, they are so configurable. Thanks again!
Thank you so much for your encouraging comments and we are so glad that our videos are helpful. The dogs are such a big part of our life as you can imagine and we appreciate your kind words. We will keep the videos coming and please let us know if there’s anything you would like to see.
Thanks so much for your encouraging comments and, though we are totally biased, yes our daughter is very talented and a great person to her core. It was truly our desire to make this house into our home. It won't be too long for you all and we are both excited for you.
First-time viewer. You have a beautiful home. We will be in the Villages on Friday to do our lifestyle preview. I can't wait to see the different homes in person.
What a beautiful home! I would leave the dark furniture the way it is. It is beautiful and balances out the muted, light tones in the other pieces. I love how you have so many family photo collages. Your home is you. ❤
Thanks so much for your encouraging comments. That is a good point about the dark furniture, thank you for your keen observation. And yes, our house is truly becoming our home. We have moved so many times it truly feels so good to just slowly let this house take shape. For decades we have always moved into a new home, and set it up immediately realizing that we would only be there a short time, but this transition is so much different, in such a good way. Thanks again and have a great weekend.
@@thevillagesnatives3491 April, the dark wood furniture complimented by the light accents and soft goods of alot like they have the Sandals Resorts in the Caribbean decorated.
Thanks so much and she is truly talented. She has been doing some digital art lately and I think I will ask her about getting that transferred to a print. Thanks again.
Beautiful home! Thank you for sharing it with us. Love the idea that the Villages design homes for "aging in place". During your video, I was looking for three things 1) The duty station wall decor 2) the award/coin room and 3) polish pottery. You did not disappoint. Totally understand the dresser without the mirror. Half my furniture is glued, stapled, or taped in some way from all the Army moves. (Oh the stories we can tell!!) For Christmas, you could do a live trim-a-tree party with your viewers. Everett, you'll have to play some carols on your guitar😊! Thank you for opening your home up to us and blessing us with your family.
Thanks so much and you truly know where we are coming from. "Oh, the Stories we could tell", most definitely! For us Army Vets the whole furniture equation is totally different: will this last another PCS? How much do we spend to replace a piece of furniture knowing that it has to survive # numbers of moves? Etc., etc... Great idea about a live tree trimming party, but I'm not too sure about me playing live. I guess I better get to practicing and praying! Thanks again and we are so glad that it is helpful.
Thank you so much for your encouraging and uplifting comments! We are honored to have served and we look forward to seeing you all when you arrive. Keep us posted.
Beautiful!!! Thank you for the tour. We really thought we wanted a designer home, but the verandas are also a great option. (We don’t have a dog and probably never will so we don’t need a fenced yard)
Thanks so much and you are more than welcome. We think the advantage of the designer home is that you can buy a lot and configure your house the way that you want, and the main advantage of the verandas are that you get the extra privacy. Either way you can definitely get a very good home to meet you wants/needs. Good Luck and let us know what you decide.
Was Everett a Chaplain in the Army? If so, did he happen to know Charles Bailey? He was also a Chaplain and a dear friend of my family since I was a teenager. Lovely home. We close on our Villages home Aug 13th. Can’t wait!
Thanks so much and congratulations on your new home! In what area did you purchase? Yes, I retired as an Army Chaplain in 2021. We had a Deputy Chief of Chaplains named Charles Ray Bailey; that is probably who you are referring to. I did not know him personally, but I served with him in Germany when he was the U.S. Army Europe Command Chaplain. He was a great gentleman and an exceptional leader in the Army Chaplain community.
@@thevillagesnatives3491 We are purchasing a home in Monarch Grove. We’re in the stressful part right now of packing up, downsizing, giving things away, organizing, getting quotes, etc. Yes, Charles Ray Bailey is exactly who I am referring to. He was our pastor at church when I was a teenager and married the daughter of longtime friends. Such fine people!
Very beautiful home. Thank you for showing it to us. I am very surprised at the second bathroom not having a bath tub/ shower. I think it is the first time I saw that. Is that the norm or is it rare? I think it is great for guests but I think I would prefer a tub once in a while for a long bubble bath with candles and a glass of wine.
Thanks so much for your encouraging comments and we hope that it was helpful. Some or maybe most of the models have a tub in that front suite area, but ours doesn't. That is a good point and we can understand your preference for a bubble bath and I am sure that one of the 100 models that TV has would probably have that. I guess we are much more functionally oriented for ease of use for guests. Thanks again and have a great weekend.
Lovely home. I'll be stealing some of your ideas for our new home. Also, at the 7 minute mark, there appears to be damage to the bottom of the garage door frame. If there is, will The Villages repair it?
Thanks so much and yes you caught it! That is actually the door gasket and it is damaged thanks to our 4 lb. Yorkie, Abbie, so I will be repairing that one. She has separation anxiety and one of the first times we had to leave them alone we exited through the garage and she was not happy. Thankfully that is the only mishap and they are now accustomed to their new home.
