Tammie, did you ever get the chance to read some of books recommended in your previous threads? I'm thinking of ones like "Designing Your Perfect House" by William J. Hirsch Jr. It's less than $8 on Amazon Kindle : ) .
I'm not sure what your budget is, but your house plan at the top is a "fat plan" with a complicated roof that will be very expensive to build (and the roof will be very expensive to maintain, with high reshingling costs etc). So expensive that it will negate any of the possible savings by using a draftsperson instead of an actual architect. And the worst part is that even after the build, you still have to live in a house that is not planned as well as it could/should be.
I would go back and read all the good comments on your previous two threads, and all the reading material suggested in them,
https://www.gardenweb.com/discussions/5077795/potential-plan-feedback-sought
https://www.gardenweb.com/discussions/5085242/cheaper-to-build-up-than-out
This is a tough love group but also remarkably consistent lol -- if you keep tossing out house plans and elevations that are less than they could/should be, people here are going to keep telling you : ) .
As I see it, your next steps are:
1) read and research
2) think about what you want, with bubble diagrams and also cp's suggestion about thinking how you want your house to feel. This is very similar to what in the Kitchen forum for kitchen planning is known as the Sweeby test. Here is part of the test, but I've changed the word "kitchen" to "house":
To start by focusing on your house as a whole, from a far-off hazy distance — to wander off into your favorite kitchen fantasy and think about what it feels like, not what it looks like. (Your real house please, not the one where Brad Pitt feeds you no-cal chocolates while George Clooney polishes the brass knobs on your Lacanche.) Then using mood words, describe what your dream house feels like:
warm or cool, tranquil and soothing or energetic and vibrant? calm, happy, dramatic?
cozy or spacious? light and bright or dark and rich?
subtle tone-on-tone, boldly colorful, textured?, woody or painted?
modern, traditional, vintage, rustic, artsy, retro, Tudor, Old World, Arts & Crafts, Tuscan?
elegant, casual? sleekly simple, elaborately detailed, or somewhere in between?
pristine or weathered, professional or homey?
whimsical, sophisticated, accessible, romantic? masculine or feminine?
How much zing? and where?
The list goes on and on…
Once you’ve identified the way you want your space to feel, then write it down as best you can. Try to freeze that feeling in words so you can refer back to it if you find yourself losing your vision or going off track.
3) find an actual architect, in real life or one from this forum who works remotely
4) tell them (do NOT show them lol) what you like, want, need in a house, including your Sweeby test thoughts.
No-one here wants to rip plans. But no-one here wants to see people build expensive, inefficient, unattractive houses that will become difficult-to-live-in homes.
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