Menard's website has a nifty little feature that allows you to plan out your kitchen online. Incorporating the lines of cabinetry they sell, you can put together a 3D virtual model with the specific cabinet units you choose. I completed this a couple weeks ago, and drew it out to put with my floor plans.
Sitting down with the architect, we started with my kitchen plan, discussed details such as appliance choices, answered his questions about my drawings, explained the quirky details I had planned in, like a broom closet between the studs under the stairs, and an unusual cabinet placement. From there we went around the house room by room. He made notes about details we discussed, explained pros and cons of various options, talked about room sizes and features and details. Along the way, two outside doors became windows, doorways grew a size to allow future wheelchair maneuverability if needed, the bathroom lost a sink, and garage doors got wider to a newer industry standard.
Overall there will be three sets of plans drawn. The first set will be ready this week and will be just a floor plan, incorporating the changes we discussed and little things I can't do on graph paper like the thickness of the actual walls, which slightly changes the room sizes and how they fit together. We'll meet again to go over these, make any necessary changes, and approve the final layout. The second set will be more detailed, giving the info needed to get quotes from builders, including outside elevations, which is the pretty drawings of the finished building showing window styles and roof lines and other such things. The final set will include all the construction details, and also blank layouts for the electric and plumbing contractors to each draw their parts.
This is the main floor.
This is the upstairs. (Garage will be first floor, of course, but this is where it fit on the paper.)
This is the kitchen.
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