Super cool modern house all filed away in the hopes we can build something like that on another lot, another day.

But what to do now? Our architect is out of town for a month. We aren’t going to build the super cool modern house (aka “spendy house”).

Craig told me I could be patient and just wait till the end of July when an engineer could work on some ideas and plans or wait for our architect to come back. Or he said I could try and come up with ideas too while we wait.

So of course I got my supplies all ready — pencil, eraser, ruler and paper. Then I cut up all the giant plans from the spendy house into puzzle pieces. I spent a TON (like days and days) of time on ArchitecturalDesigns.com sending Craig every plan that was pretty cool and interesting + could fit on that crazy piece of land. Google + Pinterest became new best friends for floor plan and house ideas. And then, we worked on a few ideas.

Crazy as it is, we have 2 new floor plan layouts that we love even more than the other house! We cut the square footage by about 1500 square feet and we have just as much amazing and cool and fun stuff in the house + a much needed gigantagarage to hold all the cars + toys!

Next up I guess we will see if we learned from our mistakes of the past. Can our ideas actually be built in reality. AND in budget??