First Design Meeting

We had our first design meeting today. The designer asked us a ton of questions to get a feel for what we are looking for in our kitchen. The as built drawing of the existing space are complete. There's a survey company coming out to do a site plan on Monday.

We had prepared for the meeting with the designer by answering a questionnaire about how we would like to use the kitchen. Additionally, we had been keeping images of kitchens we like to provide the sense of style we are going after.

As part of the project, we are expanding the main floor of the house into the back yard by approx. 15 feet. That means the new foot print of the main floor will be around 25'x40'. It's a large space, but it encompasses the kitchen, a porch opening to the back yard, the dining room, foyer/front entry, and den/keeping room. Additionally, we want to soffit or trey up the ceiling in this space to 9' or 10' based on what's feasible to gain the increase in space volume. The remaining aspects of the project are to replace the roof and paint the exterior siding & trim.

The next step in the process is to review schematics and design drawings of how the new space will be laid out. I'm hoping to have around 4 different options to look at given that we gave the designer room to design which I think is very important for this process. I'll hopefully post current or "before" pictures sometime this weekend.