My Dream Home Wish List at 18 

Addyson Vining walks through her dream home wish list
By Addyson Vining  |  The Vining Group at eXp Realty  |  Fort Mill, SC

I'm 18 years old and I spend my days walking through homes most people my age only see on Pinterest. That's not a flex, it's just my life. And honestly, it's the reason I work as hard as I do.

Right now, my mom — Kristin Vining — and our partners at OZ Custom Homes are building a home at 612 Wisteria Vines Trail in Fort Mill. Lot 7 in Wisteria Meadows. And every time I look at the plans, I catch myself doing the thing where I stop thinking about it as a listing and start thinking about it as mine.

Not mine right now. Mine someday.

The Wish List

Here's what gets me about this home. It's 4,173 heated square feet with a main-level owner's suite. I'm 18 — I don't need a main-level owner's suite yet. But I've watched my mom design enough homes to know that the people who think ahead are the ones who end up loving where they live ten, twenty years down the road. That's the kind of thinking I want to have when it's my turn.

The two-story foyer? That's the moment. That's the part where you walk in and everything just opens up and you think, okay, I made it. I've seen my mom design that feeling into homes over and over again, and it never gets old.

Then there's the kitchen flowing into the dining room and family room — white oak hardwood floors, gas fireplace, premium cabinetry, designer countertops. The kind of kitchen where you're not hiding in a separate room while everyone else is having fun. I grew up in a house like that. My mom built our home — about 10,000 square feet — and the kitchen is where everything happens. Holidays. Tuesday nights. Doesn't matter. That's what a good layout does.

The Room I Think About Most

There's a pocket office off the mudroom in this home. It's not huge. It's not the main office. But it's the room I keep coming back to because that's where I'd run my business. Right off the garage entry, before you even get to the kitchen. You walk in, you handle your stuff, and then you go live your life in the rest of the house.

I skipped college to do this — to work at The Vining Group, create content, design mood boards, learn the business from the inside. And I think about that pocket office as the room where all of that work eventually pays off. Where I'm not just helping build someone else's dream home. I'm sitting in mine.

3,000 Square Feet of "Someday"

This home has a 3,000 square foot unfinished basement. Three thousand! That's an entire home's worth of space just sitting there, waiting for someone to decide what it becomes.

Home theater? Obviously.

Gym? Absolutely.

A creative studio where I can shoot content and lay out design boards without taking over the dining room table? Now we're talking.

That's the thing about buying a home like this before it's finished — you get to make those calls. You get to put your fingerprint on it. And with OZ Custom Homes building it, the craftsmanship is already locked in. Scott NeSmith has been building since 1997. The foundation is covered. The finishes — solid core 8-foot doors, 7-inch crown molding, standing seam metal roof accents, James Hardie board and batten with brick — that's all dialed in. The basement is where your story goes.

But It's Not Just the House

Here's what I think a lot of people miss when they're shopping in this price range. You're not just buying four walls and a roof. You're buying a location. And this one is kind of unreal right now.

Wisteria Meadows is in Fort Mill — which, if you know, you know. Fort Mill schools. Tega Cay water and sewer. Minutes from Lake Wylie. But here's the part that makes this moment different: The Grove at Tega Cay is literally right around the corner. It's a $250 million mixed-use development — walkable dining, shopping, office space, residential — on 55 acres. It's not built yet. It's just getting started. Which means buying here now is buying before the wave, not after it.

That's the kind of move my parents would make. Actually, that's exactly the kind of move they did make — over and over again — to get from where they started to where they are now.

Why I Work This Hard

My parents were $55,000 in debt about ten years ago. I don't say that for sympathy — I say it because it's the reason I don't take any of this for granted. They didn't inherit this life. They built it. Literally. My mom learned to read blueprints, manage subs, do construction takeoffs, and sell real estate — all of it. My dad went from professional baseball to becoming one of the sharpest negotiators in this market.

And now I get to learn from both of them every single day. I'm not sitting in a lecture hall. I'm walking job sites, pulling comps, building content, and watching a home like 612 Wisteria Vines Trail go from a set of plans to someone's forever house.

I want a home like this someday. Not because it's expensive — because it's intentional. Every detail in this home was chosen on purpose. The layout works. The finishes are real. The location is smart. That's what luxury means to me. Not flashy. Thoughtful.

And I'm going to earn it.

If This Home Sounds Like Yours

612 Wisteria Vines Trail is listed at $2,177,777. It's new construction by OZ Custom Homes in Wisteria Meadows — one of Fort Mill's premier custom home communities with 1-acre lots and no cookie-cutter builds.

If you want to see the plans, talk finishes, or schedule a tour of the community, reach out to my mom — Kristin Vining — at The Vining Group. She's the one who mangages them and sells them. There's nobody better to walk you through it.

And if you're the one who ends up in that owner's suite? Just know — I'm genuinely happy for you. But I'm also taking notes! 

Love, Addy

Addyson Vining
Content Creator | Home Designer | Future Realtor®
The Vining Group at eXp Realty | Fort Mill, SC
www.teamvininggroup.com  |  @Addyvining