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bones said:
frank303 said:
https://www.redfin.com/CA/Irvine/115-Mosswood-92620/home/103027806

OMG, is this home located in LGA?  Cypress Village has a gated community?
This price give Strada in OH a hit!
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At least stage the useless conservatory into something. Oh wait. It's pretty useless.
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Yep. It's a very difficult corner to utilize without it looking funky. It's a tight dining room, or piano room, and maybe a reading room. I'd guess most people leave it empty.
 
Perspective said:
bones said:
frank303 said:
https://www.redfin.com/CA/Irvine/115-Mosswood-92620/home/103027806

OMG, is this home located in LGA?  Cypress Village has a gated community?
This price give Strada in OH a hit!
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At least stage the useless conservatory into something. Oh wait. It's pretty useless.
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Yep. It's a very difficult corner to utilize without it looking funky. It's a tight dining room, or piano room, and maybe a reading room. I'd guess most people leave it empty.
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Conservatory is a nice space to put a Baby Grand Piano in the corner or a play area for the kids.
 
Goriot said:
Perspective said:
bones said:
frank303 said:
https://www.redfin.com/CA/Irvine/115-Mosswood-92620/home/103027806

OMG, is this home located in LGA?  Cypress Village has a gated community?
This price give Strada in OH a hit!
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At least stage the useless conservatory into something. Oh wait. It's pretty useless.
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Yep. It's a very difficult corner to utilize without it looking funky. It's a tight dining room, or piano room, and maybe a reading room. I'd guess most people leave it empty.
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Conservatory is a nice space to put a Baby Grand Piano in the corner or a play area for the kids.
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Its actually very bad for the piano to be in a room where there's lots of sunlight shining down on it and temperature fluctuations, as is often the case with all those windows in a conservatory. Dries the wood out, gets out of tune faster.

Play area for the kids maybe...but looks terrible if its totally open to the rest of the great room, as it usually is. Builders make you think the conservatory is a great deal getting extra space for cheap, but actually its not very useful from a layout perspective in most of the new builds I've seen.I would value preservation of the already likely tiny backyard space over conservatory.  My 2 cents. Others may think differently.

 
completely agree. Its a pretty useless space. I was one of those victims of the conservatory option. Wanted more indoor space, thought it was a pretty good deal. Now it ends up being the kids play area. Not sure what to do with it when the kids no longer need it. Another dining area? I wish I can get rid of the annoying pillar so the great room feels great.
 
When good ideas go bad, lol

Agree, would rather have an outdoor California room and enclose it with drapes or one of those automatic sun screens.
 
Actually it all depends on the size and shape of the conservatory.

The size of Laurel's conservatory is not very useful but if it's bigger and located next to the kitchen like this one in Lambert Field plan 1, one can use it as nook/2nd dinning area. 



 

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lnc said:
Actually it all depends on the size and shape of the conservatory.

The size of Laurel's conservatory is not very useful but if it's bigger and located next to the kitchen like this one in Lambert Field plan 1, one can use it as nook/2nd dinning area.
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I'm surprised that is a conservatory option from the picture you posted. That is a typical appearance and location of the designated dining room in many new builds with the great room concept.

 
Then there are those "other" ones.  With that fugly pillar that makes it look like an enclosed room should be there.  Also very popular in new builds
 
Interestingly, IPAC may be doing away with conservatory option, at least in Eastwood. Didn't see a choice to convert to conservatory in any of the Eastwood floor plans that are online now. There is the expanded dining room option in lieu of California room for some floor plans.
 
lnc said:
Actually it all depends on the size and shape of the conservatory.

The size of Laurel's conservatory is not very useful but if it's bigger and located next to the kitchen like this one in Lambert Field plan 1, one can use it as nook/2nd dinning area. 
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Different situation. Field plan 1 is a rectangular great room with kitchen/dining/living all in a row. The conservatory makes it an L shaped great room. The ones that are terrible are the ones that already have L shaped great rooms so with the conservatory, it makes it s big fat square with a pillar in the middle.
 
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lnc said:
Actually it all depends on the size and shape of the conservatory.

The size of Laurel's conservatory is not very useful but if it's bigger and located next to the kitchen like this one in Lambert Field plan 1, one can use it as nook/2nd dinning area.
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I'm surprised that is a conservatory option from the picture you posted. That is a typical appearance and location of the designated dining room in many new builds with the great room concept.
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I don't have Field's floor plan on hand but the first floor is similar to Capella's where conservatory is an option at the California room. 



 

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bones said:
lnc said:
Actually it all depends on the size and shape of the conservatory.

The size of Laurel's conservatory is not very useful but if it's bigger and located next to the kitchen like this one in Lambert Field plan 1, one can use it as nook/2nd dinning area. 
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Different situation. Field plan 1 is a rectangular great room with kitchen/dining/living all in a row. The conservatory makes it an L shaped great room. The ones that are terrible are the ones that already have L shaped great rooms so with the conservatory, it makes it s big fat square with a pillar in the middle.
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Your right about that.  The design of the great room can affect how useful the conservatory will be.  I was just saying that in Field's example, the conservatory can be more functional unlike the one in Laurel's. 
 
frank303 said:
https://www.redfin.com/CA/Irvine/115-Mosswood-92620/home/103027806

OMG, is this home located in LGA?  Cypress Village has a gated community?
This price give Strada in OH a hit!
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This Laurel plan 1 unit is pending sale within two weeks from the listing at approx. $480/sqft.  Not bad.  115 Moss might have a chance at $1.2.
Market is kinda picking up these days.  I don't see much SFR inventory in SG, WB, and CV area.
https://www.redfin.com/CA/Irvine/114-Mountain-Violet-92620/home/102398639
 
Goriot said:
frank303 said:
https://www.redfin.com/CA/Irvine/115-Mosswood-92620/home/103027806

OMG, is this home located in LGA?  Cypress Village has a gated community?
This price give Strada in OH a hit!
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This Laurel plan 1 unit is pending sale within two weeks from the listing at approx. $480/sqft.  Not bad.  115 Moss might have a chance at $1.2.
Market is kinda picking up these days.  I don't see much SFR inventory in SG, WB, and CV area.
https://www.redfin.com/CA/Irvine/114-Mountain-Violet-92620/home/102398639
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Nice house and great price, if they get close to ask; but what exactly is a "proxy floor in garage"? I wonder what type of floor is serving as a proxy for the real garage floor?
 
Perspective said:
Goriot said:
frank303 said:
https://www.redfin.com/CA/Irvine/115-Mosswood-92620/home/103027806

OMG, is this home located in LGA?  Cypress Village has a gated community?
This price give Strada in OH a hit!
Click to expand...

This Laurel plan 1 unit is pending sale within two weeks from the listing at approx. $480/sqft.  Not bad.  115 Moss might have a chance at $1.2.
Market is kinda picking up these days.  I don't see much SFR inventory in SG, WB, and CV area.
https://www.redfin.com/CA/Irvine/114-Mountain-Violet-92620/home/102398639
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Nice house and great price, if they get close to ask; but what exactly is a "proxy floor in garage"? I wonder what type of floor is serving as a proxy for the real garage floor?
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I believe it is a typo.  I think it is meant to say "epoxy floor".  It's that stuff you buy at Hope Depot and throw a bunch of colored pieces of plastic on to make the garage floor a little more appealing.
 
DJW1705 said:
I believe it is a typo.  I think it is meant to say "epoxy floor".  It's that stuff you buy at Hope Depot and throw a bunch of colored pieces of plastic on to make the garage floor a little more appealing.
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Not all "epoxy floors" are created equal...that Home Depot stuff will cost a couple hundred bucks.  The premium stuff will cost $1300-1800 for a 2 car garage, and up to $2500 for a 3 car garage.
 
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