Planning is underway.

Last Saturday we sat around a table in our builder's office going over details of the basic layout for the house.  We have a plan, but of course it's not quite the way we think we want things.  In preparation for this meeting we had done a walk-through of a couple of houses with basic floor plan.  One was a little larger and completed, and the other slightly smaller and under construction in the dry-wall stage.  Those 3-dimensional experiences were to help us visualize what was drawn on paper.

We made the greatest number of changes to the second (aka bedroom/office) floor.  As a reminder, the design if for garage and flex space on the first floor,  master bedroom and two offices on the second level, and kitchen, dining, and living space in one big open third level.  Of course second and third levels have porches on the Gulf side.  We added a small balcony off the offices on the bay side (that's the West side facing Corpus Christi Bay).  There'also a small deck off the kitchen -- which would also give us a view toward the Bay.  Then, over the living room porch, so up at the forth level is another deck.  That will give us a 360 view and a full view of the sky as well.

We had expected to go with the builder to his architect this week to get started on more technical plans, but the architect is on vacation this week!  So, that activity will wait until next week.  It may take two rounds with the architect, but that we'll get us to the stage of having plans we will show to the HOA Architectural Committee (aka developer).  Those will also be what we will show to the bank to get a loan.

(We just had a discussion about the difference between decks and porches...  Alese says a porch has a roof and a deck does not.  What do you think?)

Watch here in coming weeks as the action picks up.