I've been chatting with my builder more about costs and stuff. There's only so much we can do without the actual plans but the estimate is still coming in a lot higher than I want it to be. We may end up building in North Carolina instead of Virginia to save some money on construction costs.
I also got a quote for all the glass from Palo Alto Glass. To do the entire house the glass cost is around $60k. Glass is very expensive. That's my new motto.
Also the builder said he'd rather work with the original Eichler plans than the updated plans because the updated plans are for building in California and apparently there are a lot of additional considerations when building a home in Virginia like snow loads and such. His thinking is we might as well start from scratch with the original plans.
I've been working with the very kind and helpful Monique Lombardelli of Modern Homes Realty for the updated plans we wanted to purchase. I'm trying to find out if I can get a copy of the original unaltered historical plans from her. Fingers crossed!
Depending on where you build you should be able to find a local glazer that would be much cheaper than attempting to ship glass from coast to coast. AGC supplies a LOT of the fixed glass on the East coast. It is far superior in performance to what was installed in the original Eichlers. http://us.agc.com/
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