Feedback to 3rd Revision

Christina and I had some time last night to go over the new plans. We were able to get yet another full list together of questions/changes...but the changes are become more and more minor. Excerpt of our notes is below. We meet with Bob again tomorrow morning. I'm curious if a more concrete timeline will be put in place?

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1. Do we need to have the non-supporting walls built in the utility room in the basement or can it just be left open?
2. We don’t want an unfinished closet are in the exercise room- shift the wall with door over.
3. Closet in guest bedroom to move to hallway wall.
4. can we have an additional window in office on outside west wall (this is the room currently labeled bedroom)?
5. just a note: wall behind fireplace downstairs (in AV closet) needs to move toward fireplace as far as it can go – may be as far as possible already
6. Is stuff in mechanical room fixed or can it be rearranged? Just curious. Related to this, want to put “bathroom” vent in this area…near an open space where we would have a small workbench.
7. the big family room TV wall - can we extend even farther? I’m thinking I will have a subwoofer sitting on the floor here and want to leave as much flexibility as possible for the built-in-cabinet length to leave a little bit of wall space. But don’t want to crowd the hallway too much
8. When do we pick windows and door placement?
10. wondering if we should we widen the whole garage 3-4 feet? Afraid a car parked in the stall nearest the house would crowd the door/walking room.
11. discuss - Change mud room closet to 3 feet deep for large coats, outside gear, etc. Discuss pantry size- ? add 1 foot to both pantry and mud room closet and move window down? Ok to lose cubby on the window wall.
12. Does master potty room need to be that long? Can we give that space to the shower? Idea we really like: move master suite entry way toward front of house a little more and make toilet room smaller and give some more room to the MBR closet- square off the slanted corner. This also give more wall space to the left of the FP in the living area which would be great. Also toying with tub in the corner layout, but not quite sure on that one. Also, Where are towels hung in bathroom in current layout?
13. Clarify Hot tub deck. Move stairs to come down in the middle/more toward the back yard?.
14. put a Laundry tub in the downstairs utility area?
15. Larger closet in office- want it to be 2’6” for supplies/bins/etc
16. consider additional man-doors out of the garage and/or out of the back of the workshop?
17. Storage trusses vs. attic trusses vs. none above garage? Really debating all 3 of these. The more we talk, the more we are not sure we would use the storage space. But if we do go storage, how much more would full blown attic trusses be? We’ve tossed around the idea that we could eventually finish that area off to a bonus room (not strongly considering however)
18. Future fishing of wires – I know this isn’t an immediate decision, but would be soon after the house is closed in. I’d like to leave access to fish additional wiring from the AV closet to other areas of the house if possible. Not sure how this is typically done (plastic conduit to attic areas? Open access through joists to basement areas?) But definitely want to be able to run new AV wiring 10 years from now when the newest technology is available.
19. Soundproofing the downstairs TV/game areas – again like fishing wires this isn’t immediate concern, but would be soon after house is up. Curious about options here (I’m known to want to crank up the home theater watching a movie while others are sleeping)…not looking to break the bank.

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