The floor plan selection process is one of the most joyful, yet critical parts of building your new home.  Most home builders offer an array of standard floor plans to choose from for virtually any taste or need.   Our floor plan, the “Turner”, offered a 4/5 bedroom configuration with a large master suite and a first floor built for entertaining.  Some of the options may include larger rooms,  adding or deleting rooms, changing half-baths to full baths and other general layout options.  Your builder, as Ryland did with us, should allow you plenty of options and time to make your decisions carefully.  During the floor plan process, you really should try to get a good idea of how you want your home to flow and how you want to use your new spaces in the way that suits you best not only now, but in the foreseeable future that you will own the home.

     With our home, we choose several options, like a master bath with both a shower and tub, a “den” instead of 5th bedroom so that we can setup our home theater room and a fireplace in the family room.   We also opted for every additional window available, adding one to the large master suite and the secondary bathroom upstairs.