Slowly slowly, inching closer

We are getting closer and I'm starting to feel a twinge of excitement. Bikeman and I spent about 4 hours designing what we think would be a great plan for us and Bikeman has come up with an excellent plan, which I think captures the beauty of the views as well as keeping some of the fundamentals of other plans we have seen (open plan living with prominent alfresco). He is so clever! We are going to meet with a guy he knows through work who is an architect, who will hopefully tweak the design and give us some new ideas. We need to call the local builder, too, and go and speak to the builder further. Hopefully the costs won't blow out with all this wonderful designing we have been doing, at least it has forced us to think about the things that are really important to us and how we might go about making them happen. Exciting!

A little closer ...

Today I spoke to the local builder who was really very helpful. Provided a quote for a house which was really quite competitive (although a little bigger than what we originally were looking at) but nonetheless is in the ballpark. Food for thought. And opens up a whole world of possibilities. What if we put this room here, or made that room bigger, or added a corridor here or a powder room there .... the possibilities. And how do you go back to 'not that' later? Hmmm not sure about that. We spent 3 hours last night sitting at the table drawing and rubbing out and moving and changing to create our 'dream house'. I think we are getting closer but we need to really nut out what it is we want to see in the house and design around that. So that will be our task this weekend! Wish us luck!