Week 13

The architect sent R2 of the floor designs this week - as mentioned last week, floor 2 was fine but floor 1 needed some work. Floor 1 is almost perfect now (see below), but does need some minor fixes that were overlooked by the architect. The main thing, he forgot the door between the master bedroom and master bath - without the door, people sitting around the pool would have a straight shot view into the master tub & shower. The master bedroom was suppose to have a slider leading to the pool room not french doors. We also agreed that the stairs leading up to the bonus room would have built-in bookcases. About the only addition we made that wasn't agreed to earlier was that the guest bath would be a shower and not a tub.

I paid for the reproducible design rights with ePlans.com this week. I bought the original study print a few months back from homeplans.com for $99. They were going to credit this on a full purchase which costs $973 plus tax and shipping. I thought I'd try to negotiate with eplans to get a better price from them - they wanted $1065 plus shipping but no tax. This strategy worked, they met homeplans price and saved me the $77 tax. Hey, every little bit saved adds up! The plans should arrive this coming week. One nice thing, they provide the contact info of the original architect, this might be useful if/when we have questions about how certain things were planned.

I also paid the septic design bill, but still need to go over the design with the UBuildIt consultant before submitting to the county. Will do so soon.

Look for final floor plans next week, and then the architect will start the exterior elevations.

Here's R2 from architect (we almost like it):

Here's our changes:

Here's floor 2: