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What to Expect During Your Home Selections Meeting

February 16, 2026

Working with a Wasilla home builder provides you with the opportunity to build a home that aligns with your needs. Typically, you’re choosing from a range of specific floor plans and finishing materials. However, there’s still a range of prices involved, especially if you choose to upgrade certain finishes, so it’s important to do your research in advance, long before your official selections meeting.

Choosing the colors, finishes, and fixtures plays a significant role in your final satisfaction with your new home. This is why it’s important to have clear ideas in mind – and a set budget – before your selection meeting, as there’s limited time to make these important choices. Often these choices are made during one or two meetings, so prior research is vital. With a clear vision, there’s less chance of becoming overwhelmed and ending up over budget.

A mood board is important in helping you fine tune your stylistic vision for your new home. As you visit model homes, look through design websites, magazines, and other inspiration sources, start collecting the design elements that appeal to you the most to determine what direction you want to go with for your new home. Sites like Pinterest are useful for grouping these inspirations together and letting you see what colors and finishes and overall styles you gravitate toward.

As you look for inspiration, you should also be researching costs for tiles, fixtures, flooring, and more to make sure you have choices within your budget. Having multiple options in different price ranges will make it easier in the final selection meeting to decide where to splurge and where to scale back.

Your builder will provide a checklist of required selections, but by the time you receive this, you should have your own selection list to make it easier to make the final choices. Until you sit down with the builder, you won’t necessarily know exactly what is included in their standard pricing and what upgrades may cost. This is why having a range of style choices at different price points will make it easier to narrow down your choices. The more informed you are, the easier it will be to ask questions and make decisions.

While the materials for some upgrades aren’t expensive, they can trigger additional costs in installation, from needing additional coats of paint to increased costs in laying porcelain versus ceramic tiles. This is another factor to account for when determining your final choices.

A Wasilla home builder like Hall Quality Homes will work with you to build a beautiful home at a competitive price in a reasonable time frame. However, the more prepared and informed you are, the easier it is to get the most out of the experience. To learn more about our building selections, contact us today and get started on creating your ideal home.

This post was written by Hall Quality Homes.