Today we met with Kai Yu and his associate, David, again to go over the basic floorplans again. What is especially great (and relieving) about working with both Kai and David is that they think of options and concerns that we would never think of - and are not afraid of challenging us or working with us to tweak the plans. Brian are both glad that, as builders, they are not just going to do whatever we ask them to if it doesn't make sense design-wise or living-wise. Heck, we aren't the experts and have never done this before, so having them walk us through these changes is very nice. Probably the biggest stress-point of this process will be committing to design details and then second-guessing ourselves. I think Kai and David will be able to help us make sure that we don't wind up doing something ridiculous that we won't appreciate later.
I think we are just about there on the basics after today. I've gone ahead and posted the pre-meeting floorplans on
The Plans page, with a couple of the edits we discussed today plus these:
Changes in addition to those in red below:
- Mudroom will be 1 ft wider
- Second floor hallway will be 8 inches narrower, giving more room to Laundry Room, but taking away the french doors to Master
Next week's meeting: more interior design details, potential elevations (exterior designs), and detailed cost analysis.
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