We'd like to go from 4,000 down to around 3,000 square feet. We need a big open great room, kitchen and dining space. The extended family holds a family dinner almost every Sunday and we take our turn hosting once or twice a month, so this is where most of the square footage needs to be. We'd also like a nice guest room with it's own bathroom because we love to have friends and family come stay with us! If we add in an office for Mike, a small reading library and a fun sun porch/ utility room and I'm sure we are pushing the square footage goal!
I've played around with a few plans and ideas. I've also spent many, many, many hours on Pinterest and in the home improvement stores trying to get a feel for the design elements we'd like to incorporate.
A few months back, I saw a television program about the actor Jim Belushi. He was building his dream place on the Rogue River in Oregon. It was a six part series and it was so amazing! He called it Rogue's Lair and the show followed them through the whole process of designing and building.
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| Jim Belushi's Rogue's Lair credit: riverdellconstruction.com |
I was really impressed with the exterior finishes he used..reclaimed wood installed vertically, big stone chimneys, a lot of wood decking and reclaimed, narrow width, rusted tin roofing. The place looked like it had been there for a hundred years! It was so rustic and looked just like an old fishing lodge sitting there on the river.
We decided that Rogue's Lair was probably a little TOO rustic and old looking for us, but we wanted to still have that feeling. A true riverside cottage with a covered porch overlooking the river. These photos are just a little inspiration...
It was time to take our rough house plan ideas to our architect, Jason. We met at Pizza Hut and spread the ideas out on the table in the middle of our salads and pizzas and went to work. He was so good at seeing the vision and telling us what would work and what wouldn't work as well. He was very optimistic about our vision and said he'd get to work and have a preliminary plan and front elevation ready in about a week. Ten days later and he had this much ready for us.
There is still a little tweaking to be done. The guest bathroom needs to be a bit bigger, and I'd love just a smidge more closet space in one of the master closets. We will also make some exterior changes...vertical barn wood siding, more rock and a little rock chimney stack just for looks.
It is a working plan and we're about ready to go get a few bids.
It's so exciting to see the plans and to try to visualize walking through the rooms of The Little River House!!
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