Oh, it's a blessing. It's definitely-- in a lot of ways, it's undeserved. It's a God thing. We had planned on this and planned on it, but it finally happened. And it is a dream home. Beautiful view of the lake all the way around, and just a dream come true.
Hi, I'm Kelly. This is my husband, Mark. And we built our Tilson Home in Navarro County. So the history is that we have had this land of three acres that we had at the lake for the last probably 11 years. And it was a dream that we would always build on it, and we thought it was going to be for when we retired.
And then we happened to see a Tilson sign, and we were like, build on your own land? I'm calling them. And just-- I think it was God's plan that it was time for us to build.
And things just started falling into place. We went to the-- where was the Tilson store? Melissa?
In McKinney.
McKinney? The McKinney store. And we toured, talked to some people, and it just-- here we are. It was so easy to customize the things we wanted. We actually ended up-- before we finished with Cheyanne, the designer, we ended up-- she went through two rolls of that white-out.
And we literally had every wall from this whole outside of the building, all the interior walls were gone and we started from scratch, because I wanted there's two non-negotiables I wanted. One was a Christmas tree closet and one was a butler's pantry that would have all of my KitchenAid mixer, my toaster, everything. And they put plugs in there, and it was just perfectly done. And we were able to do that, make this room bigger to make smaller bedrooms. Whatever we wanted, it was like, you can do that.
And my non-negotiables were a third car garage and a big patio, outdoor patio out front. And so that was mine. [LAUGHS]
And he wanted this--
And the big-- --island--
--island.
--in the kitchen. So this has been a dream come true. It was something we thought when we retired. We're not there yet. But we went ahead and built our house, so now it's a second home for us.
It's a vacation home that we're able to bring our family out to, our friends. We relax on the beautiful patio that Tilson built us and look at the lake. And we even have been able to let some friends stay here and just have a getaway.
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