Catalogues

Well, I'm fortunate enough to know a couple people who work at Mattamy and they were able to get me a copy of the design centre catalogues. These basically list out all of the upgrade options available to you. There are two catalogues: maingeneral and model specific.

The general design catalogue lists upgrades for items such as:

• electrical options such as outlets, switches, lighting and other wiring
  
• security packages
• central vac
• HVAC
• plumbing including upgrades to toilets, sinks, showers, etc
• fireplace options

The model specific catalogue gives pricing on items such as:

• flooring (hardwood, ceramic tiling, carpets)
  
• cabinets and vanities
  
• stairs
• kitchen upgrades

I'm so glad I was able to get my hands on these catalogues as it makes it much easier to budget and see how much the upgrades will cost. The design centre located at the sales office is open on the weekends and you can browse around looking at upgrade options. But they don't have the pricing. You can leave them with a list of questions and then they will have someone email you the information later.

I get a $5k credit that I can use towards upgrades from Mattamy. Off the top of my head, I can envision doing the following upgrades:

• hardwood flooring
• upgrading cabinets in kitchen
• getting the executive kitchen layout option
• potlights
• adding additional cable outlets
• ceramic tiling in foyer, bathrooms. I'm not sure if I'll do the kitchen yet

I quickly added up the upgrade costs and I was at $25k! Hahaha...I'll need to revisit that as that's more than I had budgeted. I'm hoping to keep the upgrades to $12-15k. Don't know how well that will go as things add up real fast. Four potlights run almost $900!