First Design Meeting

Yesterday was the first design meeting for the house.  It's purpose was to decided on structural things so that they could get the plans off to the county for the building permit.

But- before that meeting started, Steve and I went to the Little America hotel and had a delicious breakfast.  It was our Valentine's date since we didn't have one on Tuesday.

The Symphony Homes office is in North Salt Lake- just a couple of miles from Sarah's house in Woods Cross.  We started off looking at some pretty detailed plans of each level of the house as well as drawings of the front, back, and each side.

We made a few changes to the plans.  In the basement- we divided the overly large storage room into a bedroom and a smaller storage room.  Making that part a bedroom requires adding a window well and a closet.  On the main floor- we added wood flooring to connect the entry and the kitchen and french doors to the flex room.  The garage door was placed facing the back.  We also discussed the fireplace (wood vs. gas).  The second floor- we added two windows to the master bedroom.

Those were the decisions we made, but we had a whole list of discussion items to talk about.  Soundproofing of certain rooms and/or the floors was one of the main items.  We want certain areas soundproofed like the flex room, Steve's office and the guestroom.  We also asked for prices on skylights, iron railing, separate heating for the basement, etc.  I also want a price for putting in one of those little bay windows in the kitchen.

Next week we go back to focus more on asthetics- especially colors.  There are so many decisions!  I think we have our work cut out for us.