Not quite how it looked on paper

Because we designed the house ourselves, we really have no idea what to expect.  There is no model that we walked through.  Only what we have envisioned in our mind and the prints.  Many who have built a house will tell you how some things just look different on paper than in real life.  We had two scenarios come up today where we made some changes.  Luckily it was early enough that we were able to move some walls and adjust things.

Most women will be completely confused by this decision but I actually gave up 20 sq feet of closet space today.  As I was standing in our monster of a closet it just didn't feel right.  Even on paper I knew that it was too big but there didn't appear to be an adjoining room that we could shift the extra square footage to.  Now that it is framed, it looked like the adjacent bathroom cold easily take on some extra square footage.  The bathroom was smaller than I had envisioned so it was a perfect swap.  We only had to move one small wall and change the layout of the bathroom a smidge and voila!

This is the larger version of the bathroom.  Hopefully i don't regret giving up that closet space.









Another re-work we had to do was in the basement.

This door was added to go from the finished side to the unfinished side.  Long story short, we lost 2 feet which took away the walkway I intended to lead through this living area to that door.  We have another door that was going to the mechanical room to the unfinished side.  So we did some shifting and we are eliminating this door altogether.  

We also had to do some reconfiguring in the Jack n Jill bathroom.  That area of the house was a challenge when we were designing it.  And it continues to be a challenge.  However, I feel much better about how it it laid out based on some changes we made today.  Again, I lost some closet space  from a hall closet but it was oversized to start with.  We have been lucky so far with some easy adjustments.