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Orchard Hills 4 - "The Summit" Updates
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Blizzard, Amazon, Blackberry, and Broadcom are all in the Spectrum area though. (I don't actually know anyone who has worked for BlackBerry, I just see the sign). Google (Irvine) is too far away as it's almost in Newport.
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Maybe Apple and Amazon in five or ten years for me.
I have a *huge* loft that I'm wondering if I can convert to a fifth bedroom so it'd be alike a 10x10 open loft and a 10x11 bedroom, but not sure it's worth the $$$
It does suck not to have a 3CG for sure but I don't feel the pain yet since my kids are a few years away from driving. Fortunately I do have a long driveway and can fit 4 cars. If I only park 2 cars on my driveway then I can still get the other 2 cars in the garage in/out.
Luckily I have a pretty big loft in addition to the 5th bedroom. I agree with Qwerty and would definitely keep the loft as I feel like it has more utility than a 5th bedroom especially when your kids get older and bring over all their (loud) friends.
The trade-off I had to make with having 5 beds, an office, a gym (closed off conservatory room) and an upstairs loft is our living room isn't as big as some of the other other floorplans but that isn't so much of a deal breaker since it's still the biggest living room I've ever had and it also flows directly into my backyard/outdoor living via sliding doors across the whole room.
I have a loft too..it is 5 BR (with downstair BR+bath) + loft + 4 full bath.
Yes the living room and family room are separate but the floor plan has the living room and formal dining room together and the area is open to to the ceiling (or as my wife calls it a huge of waste space). So it is a big rectangular open space that I am not kidding we can really play indoor badminton. It is kind of nice overseeing this big open space from the loft too.
I really like having two separate living areas downstairs so I can watch TV/movies in the family room while the kids play in the great room (yes we did not put any furniture in the living/dining area and it is filled with toys and play tents).
Did I forget to say we have double doors too? which makes moving furnitures piece of cake and with a wide entrance hallway we fit in an upright piano (nice perk as the piano does not have to go to living/dining/family room) and a console table comfortably. maybe one day we will upgrade a baby grand and put it in the living room.
Only thing I think is lacking is we could use a powder room downstairs.
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Is your company now giving away iPhone 16e to replace the aging SE?
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The Motor Court Company
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I don't live in a 3 to 5M house but it is a travesty for that price range you don't have a 3CG. Our house has 3CWG and 3CW driveway and we park two cars on the driveway (there is enough room to park 5 cars I think). Even with this I still have problem with my wife's parking sometimes because I like to be able to open both car doors wide open without hitting each other.
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I don't think Apple has an office in OC, other than some tiny satellite one for VR development in Newport Beach, which would be greater than a fifteen minute drive.
Blizzard, Amazon, Blackberry, and Broadcom are all in the Spectrum area though. (I don't actually know anyone who has worked for BlackBerry, I just see the sign). Google (Irvine) is too far away as it's almost in Newport.
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No, we can choose iPhone or Samsung as our work phones, but not the latest one.
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I'm not a software engineer, if that helps. I majored in EECS at Cal.
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Apple does have presence in Irvine. Just not sure how big it is when compared to Blizzard and Broadcom since I think their HQs (at least the office location with the most number of employees) are in Irvine.
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Oh that's awesome. I'm enjoying my work now, but I think it'd be so fun to make the rounds of some of the gigantic tech companies over the years.Apple does have presence in Irvine. Just not sure how big it is when compared to Blizzard and Broadcom since I think their HQs (at least the office location with the most number of employees) are in Irvine.
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Maybe Apple and Amazon in five or ten years for me.
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The problem with the old floorplans that came with 3CWG is they have the split living room/family room thing that just doesn't make sense to me.
Did you get a loft too, or was this one of the plans where the loft got converted to a fifth bedroom?
I have a *huge* loft that I'm wondering if I can convert to a fifth bedroom so it'd be alike a 10x10 open loft and a 10x11 bedroom, but not sure it's worth the $$$
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Keep the loft, unless you absolutely have to have a 5th bedroom. We have 4 bedrooms and a loft and we had the option of doing a 5th bedroom. But then the upstairs would have just been hallways and bedrooms. It’s nice to have the loft when you get to the top of the stairs, just makes it feel more open. Two 10x10 rooms would be too small.
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It does suck not to have a 3CG for sure but I don't feel the pain yet since my kids are a few years away from driving. Fortunately I do have a long driveway and can fit 4 cars. If I only park 2 cars on my driveway then I can still get the other 2 cars in the garage in/out.
Correct. They have a campus located near Laguna Atura focusing on WiFi SOCs and central engineering/CAD.Apple does have presence in Irvine. Just not sure how big it is when compared to Blizzard and Broadcom since I think their HQs (at least the office location with the most number of employees) are in Irvine.
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Luckily I have a pretty big loft in addition to the 5th bedroom. I agree with Qwerty and would definitely keep the loft as I feel like it has more utility than a 5th bedroom especially when your kids get older and bring over all their (loud) friends.
The trade-off I had to make with having 5 beds, an office, a gym (closed off conservatory room) and an upstairs loft is our living room isn't as big as some of the other other floorplans but that isn't so much of a deal breaker since it's still the biggest living room I've ever had and it also flows directly into my backyard/outdoor living via sliding doors across the whole room.
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It seems you are very obsessed with 3CG.
The Motor Court Company
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I have a loft too..it is 5 BR (with downstair BR+bath) + loft + 4 full bath.
Yes the living room and family room are separate but the floor plan has the living room and formal dining room together and the area is open to to the ceiling (or as my wife calls it a huge of waste space). So it is a big rectangular open space that I am not kidding we can really play indoor badminton. It is kind of nice overseeing this big open space from the loft too.
I really like having two separate living areas downstairs so I can watch TV/movies in the family room while the kids play in the great room (yes we did not put any furniture in the living/dining area and it is filled with toys and play tents).
Did I forget to say we have double doors too? which makes moving furnitures piece of cake and with a wide entrance hallway we fit in an upright piano (nice perk as the piano does not have to go to living/dining/family room) and a console table comfortably. maybe one day we will upgrade a baby grand and put it in the living room.
Only thing I think is lacking is we could use a powder room downstairs.
CalBears96
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This is why we love our current home. 4 BR (one BR downstairs) with its own bath + powder room downstairs + loft. And the full walk-in pantry is my wife's dream.