P and C Build a House: Floor Plans

During the meeting on Monday Oct 19, and our follow-up first official design meeting on Oct 22, we talked a lot about what we would change from Bob's base plans to make the house exactly what we wanted. It was a long ongoing (via email) conversation and we left that Monday pretty excited and really looking forward to meeting the next time to see what he came up with.

Another outcome of the the Oct 19 meeting was a very aggressive timeline. One of the things we agreed to do was to allow our home to be shown in the Duluth Parade of Homes in May. The benefit to us was that hopefully vendors/contractors/etc would be willing to give us a discount or product upgrade in exchange for their work and/or products to be advertised to whoever sees the house. We're not sure how much savings that will translate for us, but we agreed! In addition to that benefit, it really gave all involved incentive to move the process along as fast as possible. Related to that, we and Bob had agreed to have the plans set in stone by Nov 16!

Anyway, I am rambling a bit. the point is that our meetings are going to be fast and furious at this point to get a shovel in the ground in mid-November. So we have been doing a lot of conversation over email between meetings. The number of things we discussed/changed/added/removed these first few days is large and I'm not going to go into all of them, but one thing we did struggle with was the master suite layout. At one point we suggested that we push the bathroom out and move an office upstairs. This did 2 things: create a direct entry into the bedroom, with access to bath/closet from the master BR. It also brought Christina’s office to the upper level which she would prefer anyway. It turns out we didn't go this route due to trying to cut the square footage down. The only real reason I point this out is that I have a picture of what we were thinking: