landscaping package

Still no response from the SR regarding the things in my last post.  I'm sure I'll get the whole "the weekends are the busiest" and whatever excuse, but likely I will have to remind her this week.  Is it so terrible to want answers?  I have stopped in the model several times in the past few weeks as I have had errands to run over there, and we stop in to say hi, and my son loves her.  We have only had to wait to talk to her once, all the other times, we are the only ones there.  I feel like I'm giving her such a bad rap but then again, it is undeniable the communication issue that lies there.  She is very sweet and I enjoy visiting with her.  I do not enjoy being on the other end of an email for days on end.

I had been curious as to what we would get as far as landscaping.  I was told at the pre-construction meeting we would get a "starter package" which included some shrubs, a tree at the side of the house, a tree in the front of the house and sod on our entire lot.  I asked if we had a choice regarding the tree in the front.  I really love River Birch trees and I noticed a nearby Ryan Homes development had them in the front yard.  Of course I was told no, and we would get a red maple.  I think we will probably move it to the back right after we move in, and plant something else in the front.

I took a picture of my neighbor's landscaping.  This house has been finished for weeks and for whatever reason it has not closed escrow yet... I think there is something fishy going on there, like they are trying to pull out or something.

Talk about a totally basic package.  I do love the crepe myrtle side tree though.  I'm told RH gives a local landscaper the authority to pick 1 of 4 trees for the front yard pick, the one he feels is healthiest and most appealing.  But so far the only tree I see them putting in the front yard is the red maple.

We will have one of these on each side of the garage.

 They landscape a big around the corner of the garage to the front door.

 My other neighbor.  I just love the colors she has picked for her elevation.

 I noticed this on the ground near the tankless water heater.  Not sure what it is?

 Looks like they mulch around the air conditioner.

 A spigot on each side of the house.

The same neighbor's kitchen.  They went with the same cabinets (but didn't add the crown moulding to the tops of the cabinets), and they went with Santa Cecilia granite which has gold and yellow tones (we chose New Caledonia which is gray toned).  They also have the same flooring as us, those beautiful dark hardwoods!  They had a different appliance package too.  They chose to leave off the cabinet hardware as well, and let me tell you it is very hard to open those cabinets without hardware!  We both laughed when we tried to open a drawer, we had to open the cabinet by the bottom just to open the drawer because those cabinets fit together so tight! Guess we are going to have to make that one of our first projects, and she said they did too!  They are such beautiful heavy duty cabinets.

Also if you look at the wall color, that is "divine white", the same color we are getting.  It doesn't look yellow or tan (what we didn't want), but it is not quite white.  It will be fine, we aren't worried about it.