Home buying thread

Intrinsic said:

It is just a thought. The Pantry is 12' x 6' so we're not super constrained where our cheap Insignia freezer would take up too much space. Before we decided to do our own build, we saw quite a few new spec homes that were setup similarly and it seemed like a good idea. The thought process really being that we as a family of 5 value refrigerator space over freezer space and to prioritize that in the kitchen area (see previous counter depth vs. full size decision). I mean, honestly, I open a freezer maybe twice a week. My wife opens it once a night to get something out for cooking or thawing.

Honestly, I'm kind of just stuck on this idea and being a little stubborn. It is as easy as that. The other side of the pantry is the garage which is 24'. I've already asked to bump that out to 25'. I think I mentioned earlier about removing the grocery hatch, we didn't ask for that, and it is like 2' from the garage door to the pantry and we're not that lazy.

Hopefully now that Thanksgiving is over we'll get some more feedback and a 2nd floor plan and move some of these discussions forward. I don't want to start asking to move walls and reconfigure a whole lot until we know what the upper level is also.

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Haus said:

That window on your pantry is going to make even bumping a small amount for the fridge awkward as hell...

On the freezer topic, we have a small chest, and a standing freezer. We got the standing because I got tired of playing reverse tetris to get shit from the bottom of the chest freezer. Now the chest one is for things I can stack deep like briskets, hams, turkey's for smoking.

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Intrinsic said:

I honestly had not realized he placed a window in that spot, even when redrawing the plan in the 3D program. That's funny. Seems to be a somewhat useless window since it would only be looking into the pantry area and placed in the corner of the patio to the presumed-to-be working area of the outdoor grill prep area. I could see us dropping that either way. But good catch, crazy how easy it is to overlook these things when you stare at this long enough.

We've talked ourselves back into a built-in 36" Sub Zero or Monogram anyways. It'll change in another week and probably change again. Had to email the lazy POS doing the plans this morning because he has never responded to our initial email about modifications or the status of the 2nd floor. If we don't get any feedback from him I'll just fire him and find someone else.

Yeah, our chest was for the larger items from our 1/2 beef we get every year. The ground beef, smaller steaks, some stew meats, etc went in the standup in our pantry and the large roasts and whatnot are in our chest in the garage.

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