Eventually I narrowed
it down to four plans. They were all variations on the same theme, but
each plan had some unique features and some flaws as well. Number one
above had all the bedrooms along the side of the house with the best view, the south
side. This left the living rooms without the view toward the ravine
in back. It also meant you entered the living space directly, no mud room.
Number two shared the view with two bedrooms and the great room and gave
us an entrance hall, but it was the largest plan of all. Number four we
rejected because it had too many rooflines and would have been the hardest
to build. So, we chose number three. Basically, its a long pole building,
20 feet by 58 feet attached to a smaller wing, roughly 24 feet by 26 feet, which
joins the main wing to the existing rooms. The yellow rooms are the
existing kitchen and sleeping room. The light blue rooms are bedrooms and
the purple rooms are the dining room and great room. The dark blue areas
are the front hall and the drive through loggia. The green area is the future site of the laundry room, dog
room, and bathroom. We are also thinking about putting a second floor over
the lower half of the main wing to give us three more rooms over the
loggia and guest room area. That depends on the height of the poles we can
get. You can see a more detailed plan on the next page.