Electrical and lighting finalized

We had our final selections meeting yesterday. I will try and come back and post separately on our earlier selections, so this will be a bit out of order, but its easier to talk about things that just happened.

Very little overhead lighting is included, which is disappointing but not unexpected based on the many blogs we'd read up on. We noticed that a common thread was to be sure not to skimp on lighting, especially on the first floor.

First floor

We do get 9 recessed lights included in the kitchen, which seems like it should be more than enough. But we decided to add two pre-wires above either end of the gourmet island to give us the option to add pendant lighting later. These will be on a separate switch from the other lights, which will give us the option to turn on some lighting in the kitchen without the blinding light of all 9 cans.

We also added a light pre-wire to the pantry, and an additional outlet to the opposite side of the island. I wanted to add an outlet to the pantry, but eventually was overruled... I'm sure I will regret that later.

In the living room we were initially going to put just a fan with light in the center of the room, but decided to switch that to a fan pre-wire only, and added 4 recessed lights to the corners of the room.

In the office we added a light pre-wire.

The dining room comes with a chandelier.

The foyer/hall and mudroom come with overhead lighting, and the powder room comes with lighting as well.

Second floor

The master bedroom get a fan pre-wire in the center. We debated recessed lights, but we like having a fan on at night and adding those seemed like overkill.

Master bathroom comes with lighting, as does the master closet. We did add an outlet to the closet for steaming/ironing, glad we realized it didn't have one at all.

We added light pre-wires to the center of each of the three other bedrooms. We debated adding them to the closets as well, and we'll probably regret not doing that later.

Laundry comes with lighting.

Bonus room we added just a center fan pre-wire. It's such a large room that I'm regretting not adding recessed lights around the room and in the bump out. We just aren't exactly sure how we will be using this room yet. We also added a dedicated circuit to this room based on some other blogs, thinking we might want to have a mini-fridge and the treadmill in this room and who knows what else. The SR didn't think it was necessary and convinced us to remove it, but when I reviewed the final contract we missed that it was accidentally still included.

Exterior

There is one outlet near the back door, and one on the front porch near the door by default. We added one additional outlet in the front down from the porch in anticipation of holiday lighting needs.

Also added floodlights outside the master bedroom window overlooking the backyard.