re: Looking to build an Acadian style home up here in Okie Land. LA architect recommendations?

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As a builder, I designed, built and sold over 100 Acadian style homes in some of Mandeville's better subdivisions. Let me offer some thoughts:

Since the Acadian requires a symmetrical front porch, it severely limits flexibility of the interior flood plan ... center foyer, room right, room left. When designing a home, you either start with what you want on the inside or how you want the exterior to look ... pick one first, you then limit the other.

The cost of the front porch equals the cost of a room. Therefore, your home has one less room than you could have had ... probably a BR + bath.

A front porch is like owning another car or a boat. It has to be maintained properly. It has to be cleaned regularly. Do you really want to spend a Saturday morning cleaning your front porch?

Would you get more use from a rear porch? or an outdoor kitchen pavilion?

Builders do better building homes similar to what they have previously built. It doesn't have to be a duplicate, but if you can find something in OKLA that you're happy with, modify it, then build it.

Just some considerations

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Great post. Adding to that, Potentially the biggest investment of your life is a fish out of water. If OK has no Acadian influence whatsoever, why would you spend hundreds of thousands of dollars on a property of that very nature. Everyone always assumes they are building their forever home, but life happens.

I rep alot of buyers from TX & Cali who relo to TN and want to build Mediterranean style homes. We have zero Spanish influence here. Those properties tend to take baths on resell or sit until a buyer from those markets buy. A TN farmhouse? You'll have multiple offers in a week in most cases.

Just food for thought.