Options & Alternatives

We got a few more options from the Architect today working toward getting some square footage economy to the floorplan, though with everything we're looking for, it's proving to be a challenge while keeping rooms good-sized.

Here are 3 of the options that we're going to have further discussions about.

Option 1:
This one is the most similar to the original floor plan, but trims a bit of square footage out where we felt we could trim.  But it's still pretty big:

Option 3:
This option trims out a bit more square footage, which also shifts the layout around a bit.  We're not sure we like this layout as well for the 250 sf. it saves.......



Option 4A:
This one is the biggest departure, as it moves the storage area into a basement.  Up North, this would be a no-brainer.  But in Texas, with the water table as it is & the lack of expertise in building basements, it does admittedly have us a bit queasy thinking of the possibly high likelihood of everything in the storage area ending-up drenched - EEK!  Heck - up North many basements leak &, in theory, they know how to build them......let alone in an area where they do not.  This one isn't, yet a "no", but may be after further evaluation.....



So, we've made a bit of progress - have some more questions to ask & discussions to be had before we decide which of these will be directionally where we're headed.

Then we can get back to figuring out the outside design, too!!