In one sense, that’s because, like dinner and evening plans, I’m really just not that picky over it. I want a house that is modern, or at least close enough to modern that the inside can be decorated with a modern aesthetic and still match the house. I want a very nice master suite (I’d rather dump my money there because it’s been my experience that except when we’re actively entertaining company, we tend to spend most of our time in the bedroom). That’s my requirements, and that’s all my requirements. More or less if the house design meets those, I’m content.

Now, I’m not sure if TheBoyfriend™ is having a hard time finding something he likes in general or just a hard-time finding something he likes within the criteria I outlined above, but one thing I do know, if we don’t get the thing built ASAP, it is never gonna get done because he’ll never decide on one. When he announced on Friday that he wanted to nail down a house plan (by which I mean rough floor plan and structural shape, not architectural blueprints) to send on to some of the modular builders we’ve been considering, I was thinking he meant he wanted to go ahead and flip the floor plan (which we had decided would fit our lot better) of our third and most recent pick and email it on out. I didn’t know that he was looking for a brand new plan until he called me over to his computer saying, “What do you think of this?”

Well what did I think of it? It was beautiful aside from the $800,000 price tag!!!!! He managed to convince me that if we took only the very top story and made that the whole house, along with dropping the (nice to have, but unfortunately prohibitively expensive) ultra-”green” building materials, we might be able to knock it down to something doable financially, maybe; at least enough so to make it worth mocking up to send to the architects to find out. So then it became my job to take out all the interior walls of the floor plan and rearrange them to make one story of a multi-level house usable as an entire house (also, along with getting rid of the rest of the house, so thoroughly changed the plan as to make any copyright issues non-existent).

Now that it’s done I’m thinking I need to make sure I get it to a build as soon as possible or it will join the ranks of the last 3 plans that were (I thought) agreed upon, then discarded. On the other hand, since we’ll likely be there for a long time, I do want it to be a house he’ll be happy with so going through number of designs might not be a bad thing. Plus, stylistically, it seems time is on my side. The first house we looked at I thought was a good mix of our styles as it was kind of a modern take on a cottage. The second one was more of a Mountain Chalet style. The third was classic Mid-Century Modern. And this latest is quite Modern-Contemporary. With each new plan he suggests we’re moving closer to my preferred aesthetic, and since he’s the one suggesting them, I can only assume that means the modern look is growing on him.