How many plan revisions did you make befor building?

13 years ago

I'm interested in hearing how many plan revisions and how long it took before you finally decided on the right version?

We're having a difficult time finding the right final configuration and we've probably had our plan designer revise it 10-15 times already. We're looking at one final revision where we feel square footage is minimized and space/flow maximized. We previously found the "ideal" configuration but it ended up adding over 300 sq ft with no added rooms, batchrooms, etc. Some people have told us that they went through a year of stressful revisions before finally deciding so our two weeks of changes must be normal.

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gbsim1
13 years ago
Our architect worked primarily with free hand floor plan sketches (nice ones though) in the early stages.

The rooms were in proportion but there wasn't a lot of detail and room sizes weren't really there particularly.

Only when we had the floor plan fairly firm in everyones mind did he move forward with actual plans generated on the computer. I'd say we had about 4 meetings in the sketch phase.

I don't know how many revision stages we went through before we got the final plans, but the entire process was about six months.
Mom23Es
13 years ago
I have no idea but it was a lot. We're now in contract with a builder and I'm freaking out that maybe our kitchen and master bath aren't big enough. Things are looking so different when I see cabinetry drawings. Now DH and I are talking about bumping out the house another couple feet. They haven't started digging yet so all we have to lose is time and money. Oi-vey.
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Alex House
13 years ago
I'm probably at revision #60 or so. Here's how it has worked for me. A first floor plan comes together. Then I follow one of two paths - go straight to exteriors and roof or go to second floor. Once one of those is done then I proceed onto the remaining task. I've had all sorts of plans that I really liked right up until the moment where I didn't like something that was a design artifact that I couldn't work around due to decisions made earlier in the process. Then I pull the plug.

Once the plug is pulled I have two choices - start fresh or backtrack. Here's how I manage the process. When I start fresh I label the plan as "House Plan #4" and each subsequent new start proceeds sequentially. Then as I make changes to the basic plan I save the changes as "House Plan #4 - Design Variant #8" and so on and this process branches out.

I've had plans that worked well on the first and second floors and exteriors but the roof lines just didn't work for me, so I've abandoned them and started afresh.
BAVE
Original Author
13 years ago
Okay I dont feel so bad now. We've been going back and forth for a couple of weeks now (almost daily) with the designer. I was beginning to feel like I'm becoming obsessed. Then again, you have to get it right before moving to the next step. I cant imagine the feeling of framing and then regretting a layout during the process.
agentslim
13 years ago
Im on revision #6 and I think it is getting fairly close. We started fresh after the revisions #3 because we liked it and once it was plotted for our lot it didn't fit well so we started over. We were extremely frustrated as well. Hang in there!
abdrury
13 years ago
About six or seven, and it took a few weeks to hammer it all out. We're about to start drywall, and no huge second guesses yet.