Floor Plans

Another picture dump, this time it's our floor plans and the house elevation:

Front and Right Elevations.  The house is going to be mostly brick.  The areas on the second floor of the front elevation that you see are going to be vinyl siding.  We briefly considered a wood shingle, but we felt the maintenance would be too much for us.  I'm not a huge fan of vinyl siding (or not a fan at all, really), but since it is such a small area of the house (and one that you can't see up close, since it's only on the second story), I think we can live with it.  I do believe we are going to try to choose a siding that has as much of a wood look/feel as we can manage.

Rear and Left elevations

First floor.  The room marked "Living Room" is going to be our home office, and "Bedroom 2" is going to be our guest bedroom.  The idea is that our guest bedroom should be on the first floor in case we have overnight guests who have a hard time getting up and down stairs, such as an "aged P" (kudos to anyone who gets that reference).

The second floor.  What used to be the 5th bedroom now has a doorway to the master bedroom.  This is likely going to be a hobby room of some sort.  One change, the door between the two rooms is now closer to the bottom of the master bedroom, in order to break up the space on the master bedroom's left wall as little as possible.  The two bedrooms on the left are intended for future children.  In the meantime one is probably going to function as a second guest bedroom, the other possible an exercise room.  The "Play Room" is probably going to be either a recreation room of some sort, or maybe a home cinema.

Also, in case you haven't noticed, we are doing our posts in two different fonts.  The posts in Arial are Patricia's, the posts in the stately Courier font (i.e. this one) are mine.