Welcome
to the Landmark experience of Elizabeth Papapetrou and Barbie Quinn.
We first contacted Landmark in January 2002. Instead of choosing one
of the hundreds of house designs offered by Landmark, we decided to
design our own home, and came up with a basic, 28' x 28', two story,
three-bedroom, one-and-a-half bath, fireplace in the living room design
that offers a total of 1717sq ft of space, including the external front
porch and rear balcony. Here's what the first back-of-an-envelope sketch
of our idea looked like:
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Our
lack of drawing skills did not distract us from our vision!
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A
local architect friend translated Elizabeth's 3D Home Architect software
design drawings to blueprints for us, but Landmark also offered to do
so at low cost.
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Elizabeth
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Elizabeth's
final "artist's impression" of our design. Note, no
chimney yet; the software wouldn't draw one on the outside!
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Barbie
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Here
is a photo we took of our home - Harmony House - now complete,
taken from halfway up a tree which happened to be near the "virtual"
viewpoint of Elizabeth's "artist's impression" of the
design.
You
can see that the vision manifested almost perfectly! It was taken
after we signed the mortgage on January 22nd, a little over 4
months from the delivery of the framing package and little more
than 7 months after we signed the agreement for the construction
loan. To say we are delighted would be an understatement!
We finished detailing the completion of our home, below, (yay!)
but we're still working on the house. Perhaps it never ends!
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To
give you an idea of the process - we completed pre-qualification for
a construction loan in April 2002 and, after months of work gathering
bids and pricing our design, we were accepted for the loan and signed
the agreement on June 12th. Due to County plan review delays, we broke
ground in St. Augustine, Florida on August 5th. The stem walls and concrete
slab for the foundation were ready September 6th. We arranged to have
our Landmark framing package delivered at 8AM on Monday, September 16th.
We waited with mounting excitment for that special day to arrive.
See
some cool photos and read about our building adventures in the pages
below.
Thanks
for your interest! Barbie
& Elizabeth
