The end is starting?

We had our last meeting with the architect this week.  The final plans are going to the printer today and we should have them next week.

Several bits we have learned:

*Pay attention to details.  I am really terrible at this!  Jackie caught some things that we didn't like and so we changed them.  If she wasn't looking, we would have had some things we really didn't want or like. Nothing major....but the kind of things you'd say.,"What was I thinking....." and would bug you for as long as you owned the house.

*Ask if you are not sure.

*Don't go with all the ideas you see on House Hunters.  For example:  I always thought the little closet 

with a toilet thing was a good idea.  You could settle in on the pot, have a coffee, bring your paper, relax in privacy while someone else brushes their teeth.  I am a kind of germophobic person.  When I get done using the toilet, I have to wash.  Can't do that in the little closet with the toilet cause there is no sink.  What seemed like a neat idea isn't for some people.

*Measure twice.  The plans called for a double garage door and single....after much thought, we opted to change that to 3 singles.  Architect asked if we wanted 8 ft  standard or 9 ft doors....we said huh?  So I went to the old house and measured the openings....we had 9 foot doors.  Someone, I won't say who, said that was not possible...we had 8 ft doors.  I asked how we could have an 8 foot door on an 8ft. 8 inch opening?  After a long discussion, back into the car, back to the house, remeasured the door with a witness present and .... voila, we had 9 foot doors on the old house, so that's what we put on the new.  

*Everything costs a lot.

*There is not enough money to do everything.

*Time will tell how much of our plan needs to be altered.