Back in California
I have a wonderful architect--and by wonderful, I mean superhumanly patient! Bob designed a house our family had previously lived in, and I hired him to design a lovely sunroom and guest cottage at my last home in California. I don't think many creative types would have been as accepting (and need less ego stroking) as he was of my initial floor plan sketch and insistence that this was the house I wanted. I'm a lie-awake-at-night designer, and I was pretty much married to the layout I'd been dreaming of for years. Bob made me consider options outside my rigid little box, and was vital in making my vision work in real-life proportions. We worked together pretty much non-stop for over two years. Bob has a great staff--all equally patient. We devised a system where I figured out basic markup techniques on my desktop, and we went back-and-forth from there. But given online access to every drawing, gave me the ability to get into every. little. ti...