In the construction of a community, the builder does not want all of the homes to look alike, but does not want to undergo the challenge of making several dozen floor plans available, so the builder will offer different exterior finishes to the same model. The base price exterior or “elevation” will be included within the base price of the home. If you want a stone front, rounded windows, or other options that make the house look different from the exterior to the home next door, there is that opportunity for an additional fee. The builders are quite specific in their offering of lots with regard to floor plan, color and elevations. They will not allow the same elevation on the same floor plan to be directly across from or next to an identical one. You are given a palette of colors from which to select your exterior, that palette may have the houses next door and across the street excluded! This eliminates the appearance in a community of the old “tract home”, where the builder built the same floor plan with the same elevation in the same color all the way down the block.