Tuesday, May 6, 2008

Evolution of a house plan...

Chris being the engineer he is, has always wanted an efficient and economical home. Me, being the girly-girl I am, said as long as it is pretty, efficient and economical will be fine.

When we first started thinking about building our own home (about 6 months ago), Chris's brother, Robert, had property that he was going to build a duplex on. We decided to buy one from him since we would get a some say in the building of it. We got house plans engineered and then we fell into some problems with city restrictions and had to figure out another route for building.
Here is the first plan...


We started to wonder if building was really an option for us with prices so high, and a market so unstable. Robert came up with another floor plan, this time as a single-family dwelling. We helped him tweak the plan a little and were happy with it.

There were some others that were considered before this but this one won...


Once again, things evolved...Robert wanted to try out a designer he knew and took her our house plans to "improve." We were pleased with her revisions. Here is "hopefully", our final draft. We will see during the building process if things change again. Isn't it interesting how you can take the same plan and still have so many options?

The final house plan...I think!

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