``There's a hardwood floor in the foyer, and ceramic-tile bathroom floors, and, in the master bath, there's a soaking tub and a stall shower, plus a cathedral ceiling with a skylight.''
Bunting, a teacher, is marrying Keith Fritz, a resource manager for Coretech Consulting Group, in April. Both are looking forward to moving into their Cassel Mill home by mid-February.
``What I liked is the openness on the first floor, and the wide hall on the second floor. And knowing the builder's good reputation,'' Fritz said.
All this, they added, in a 2,200-square-foot home, the Skippack design, that costs $185,000.
Some of the other standard features they didn't mention are nine-foot first-floor ceilings; 42-inch kitchen cabinets; crown molding and chair rails in selected rooms; a center-island kitchen counter; 10-inch-thick, poured-concrete foundation; and the substantial R-19-rated insulation on exterior walls.
But ask builder Jack Gambone about his favorite standard feature and he brags about the attic.
``You can add a floor, windows or skylight and stairs to give you a storage room, or you can finish [the attic] completely and have a third level in your home,'' he said.
The president of Gambone Bros. Development Co. is not alone in his praise of the attic. Penny and Tim Golonka, who moved from Chicago, chose a Gambone home because it came with an attic. ``There's not another builder in the area that we could find that offered an attic,'' Penny Golonka said.
The Golonkas were the first family to move to Gambone's Cassel Mill at Skippack. They opted for the unfinished-attic package for their Shenandoah, which includes a full stairway to the third level from an alcove on the second floor.
``We plan to finish it in the future as a craft/sewing room with a sleep sofa, and a storage area,'' Penny Golonka said.
