Met with the Designer today

We finally met John Croom today and had a really good meeting with him. He is much cheaper than Scott Sullivan and is really sensitive to what we're hoping to do. He showed us a plan he's done with a builder across the hall from his office and mentioned they could probably come up with a fairly accurate building price for that plan. It's 1700 sq. ft. and probably too big for our budget but I'm definitely curious how much that house would run.

The builder (Hagood Homes) has built a couple of really nice looking coastal cottages in a tiny development called Southern Oaks. We really like these houses a lot (much too expensive for us, though).