"Hired" designer today. Got surprise plans.

I was up in Durham working today so LeAnne dropped by the designer's office today and gave him a check for $1,000. He will deposit this immediately I'm assuming, unlike the $1,000 check we gave as earnest money for the lot. The builder's wife had come up with some ideas and got John to draw up some plans based on those ideas. LeAnne went to pay John and pick up the plans- they were rolled up Mike Brady style and were not really like what we were looking for.

I think everyone is kind of slow right now (imagine that) and happy to help out on something that's a little different than what they've been doing. But it was kind of weird to get these big plans that seems totally fleshed out and a major investment of time from a few people we hadn't even paid or had an official "let's get started" conversation with.

As a commercial artist, I'm used to iterating things a million times and having some of my precious work stomped on and thrown in the trash. LeAnne's not used to that concept and is reluctant to go into our Friday meeting and let them know the plan is not right for us. I'll help her out with that part.

Here's the floorplan as conceived by the builder's wife and John:
It's got some really nice things going on- and has a couple of the little details that I really want in my house, but it's not quite there. Here's the surprise front elevation: