As we indicated before, we had a house plan that we’d used when interviewing each of the builders. It was close to what we were looking for but definitely needed polishing and changes to make overall flow better. We started talking through things with the builder and with a bit of back and forth over a couple of months ended up with something we really liked. At this point, perhaps our only frustration has been that Glen is a “seasoned guy” and still is doing plans old-school (by hand). As a result, any time we decide to move something, it’s a lot of work for him. Most of Averon has gone digital but Glen is still trying to come up to speed on their system (Chief Architect). After a longer time-frame than we probably would have liked, we ended up with 17 pages of plans that had engineering seals and were ready to go to the city. They were ultimately submitted to City of Houston on October 18. Sometime after that, we think we “broke” Glen when we realized that while the overall dimensions were correct, there was an issue with some of the individual room dimensions (something that would be impossible in Chief Architect). Pretty quickly after that, he got the primary pages of our plans done in Chief Architect and is now a convert.
First Floor Plan in Chief Architect