Final house design

Well, after twelve revisions and eight months of planning, designing, redesigning, changing, scrapping, planning, and redesigning some more we’ve finalized the house design at last. It’s funny, we had been so sure of what we wanted and didn’t want before, but gradually this all changed. I’m super happy with the design. And although it is different in some ways from our original plan (i.e. basement, open kitchen/living/dining room), it is more true to our original vision then we had ever expected: a quaint, simple, modern farmhouse. It’s crazy to think about how far our design gradually strayed from this original vision before we finally were guided back towards the root of what we wanted.

In a lot of ways designing the house has been a full circle – as we meandered away from our vision, only to come back to it. It was also an evolution. The final product was far better than what we had ever originally envisioned. So I suppose you must go through the process. You are never going to get what you want the first time through, despite how confident we felt that we knew exactly what we wanted. We didn’t. We needed to explore. We needed to think about all kinds of scenarios and possibilities before finally discovering what it is that we really want.

And so, here it is. I cannot wait to see this become a reality.