Here are some of the O'Neal that a friend built. O'Neal Custom Build

We are considering building the Evanston plan from Don Gardner. If anyone has built it and has pictures or advice, we would love if you would share.

Never build a house where you can sit in the powder room and carry on a conversation with those in the living room.

yep, we sure are..in fact in total irony, we went out to the lake to visit our lot today and one of the builders who lives out there who is building a bunch of different custom homes, let us go in and look at a few of them, and this exact plan is one he is currently building (birchwood) with a few small modifications like they added a butlers pantry where the pantry is and the espace is the pantry with access from the hallway. We walked through it and it is a very nice layout, it had nice finishes (granite, very nice kitchen cabinets that went all the way up to the ceiling with the soft close feature, upgraded appliances, hardwood floors, nice trim details everywhere, coffered ceilings in great room, dining room etc. the one he just finished has stacked stone, brick front and stucco I think and it has all the patios that the plan shows above (but no outside fp) and the breakfast room patio was not screened. The only room in the space that had visibility/light issues was the master bedroom, but that wouldn't be important in the overall scheme of things..oh and his cost per sq ft is around $115 heated/cooled space without a lake lot, but we already own our lot so assumably it could be less. Here is a pic of it.