More house edits

The more I thought about it, the more I hated the idea of the dog's yard being off the guest room.  What if we have company?  Our dogs are up between five and six in the morning.  I don't want to wake company.  They also go out as late as 11 sometimes and don't want to disturb company.  I hate the garage door facing the front of the house and would much rather give it that guest house look, but when given the two options, I decided it will just have to look like a garage.

So the door that was in the guest room is gone and replaced with a window.  The door to the dog's yard is now off the dining room.  The two car garage and workshop portion of the garage has been spun back around and the gates have been moved.

Then we started talking about furniture.  We liked everything except the master suite.  By the time we put in a king size bed we were kind of limited where we could hang a television.  Because of John's health, he seldom leaves the bedroom, so a TV to keep him occupied is needed.  He also needs his recliner in there for when his legs are hurting really bad.  So add a king bed and a recliner and the need for both of them to face the TV and the room just wasn't functional.  I tried to change doors, windows, the opening to the WIC, etc and nothing else worked.  I finally gave up and decided to just add three feet to the room.  In doing so, the only way to keep the house 'balanced' was to add that much to the dining room as well.

I got that done, added the fencing for dogs and the new rails for the back porch.  Added the walls going off the back of the house to enclose the walled garden that leads to the pool house.  I also pulled the old flooplan from before the three feet was added to the master and the dining room, and I put in the electric outlets and light switches.  It will still need some work, but I went room by room deciding where I'd need outlets for most things in the house.  I tried to keep the number of outlets and switches to the minimum.  Since I want to have lots of can lighting as well as nightlights at floor level, we shouldn't need lamps.  That helped a lot.  The master study will definitely be the biggest challenge for electric, having to power two laptops, a desktop, the printer, etc all in one place.

Anyway, this is the new floor plan as well as the electric and light switch schematic.

Now that I've got this one done and seldom change anything, I think I'm going to start to focus on the plans for the Maine house and do those edits.  Then all I need is to get things organized so we can start to build!