We met with the architect from our contractor today concerning the 3-season room addition. I think we made a great deal of progress; he said as we were wrapping up that we’re pretty close to a full spec now.
The previous tentative design had included the use of wooden screen/storm doors as wall panels. We had some concerns about this design largely surrounding ease of switchover between glass & screen panels. The architect had an alternate proposal for us today that uses sliding patio doors rather than panels, for about the same cost. We think this will work great.
We had some discussions concerning hip roof vs. gable end, skylight or no, whether the front wall (facing the road) will have a kneewall, floor height with respect to the main house, etc. He is going to price out the various options, and we’ll make a decision.
Also on the porch front, some surveyor markings magically appeared on our sidewalk yesterday — including a mysterious flag marked “stone bound” set into a dug-up area near the property corner — so I suspect we will see the land surveyor’s output relatively soon and we’ll see where we stand with respect to setback issues.