Especially if you want to see value as a paying customer, you shouldn’t make an architect a draftsman!
That sounds stupid, but that’s how it is.
We had this experience with House 1. We had a floor plan from the general contractor (GU) as a basis and commissioned the GU’s architect to make a few changes for us. They do all that if you ask – the customer is king. You can build like that, and it was built that way. But after 1-2 years in the house, you realize that the original GU floor plan by the architect actually made sense. And every change we made ourselves turned out to be awkward in one way or another. These are things you don’t necessarily recognize on paper.
With House 2, we wrote down our list of requirements and gave it to the architect without drawing anything ourselves, so as not to make the same mistake again.
