Custom out here requires that there be a wooden fence about 6ft high separating the houses. This to insure privacy when the family entertains or has barbequed meals out doors. usually the owners get together to split the cost and these fences are all of varying design. All houses set back from the sidewalk and the entrance can be on the front or either side. This House has the entrance on the side with a service entrance on the other side . All have fireplaces of varying designs- linoleum in the kitchen and Bathrooms- some have Fire Warning Bells altho what good they are I don't know. But as Bob says every new development has some kind of a new gimmick. In this house they have wrought iron furniture - Hollywood Beds (no back boards or footboards). The new homes for sale are all built around the Kitchen. They are out of this world. Large enough and still compact with plenty of top working space and loads of cabinet space. I suppose they plan the Kitchen will sell the wife and that's more than half the battle. Provision is made in the kitchen for a Washing Machine and Clothes Dryer. Some have  gas - others Electric Stoves - others nothing at all depending on the price of the house. When the man of the house comes home the first thing he does is water the lawn and the flowers. The loam here is terrible-it looks like gray mud full of alkali and if not continually soaked bakes down hard like adobe mud. I will endeaver to take some shots of Bob and Kay's interior to give some idea of the layout. My reaction to the new home deal is that they cost a hell of a lot of money. Exteriors are all the colors in the rainbow and the interiors correspond