Requirements

The cool part about building a custom home is that it gets to be tailor made for you. In order to give the architects a starting point, they gave me a questionnaire to fill out and also gathered some basic requirements that I wanted out of the house. My list of requirements is obviously very similar to the kind of house I've been looking for:

• Modern, clean design
• high ceilings
• ~1500-1800sq ft
• large, open living room for entertaining
• large, well-equipped kitchen with pantry
• more emphasis on living areas, less emphasis on bedrooms
• garage for at least 1 car
• server closet
• high-tech wiring throughout the house
• media room or living room that can double as media room
• low maintenance/upkeep
• try to use natural materials and finishes

With that information in hand, plus a list of architects and projects that I like, Pb Elemental started on a first draft design of the house.