re: Home Building: Cost per square foot

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Here’s one for all you guru’s... We had a very experienced local draftsman draw our preliminary plans. We went in with a list of things and a request to keep it at around 2500/4500. We got the plans back and they’re 2900/4800. He included a 4th BR and a computer room, neither of which we asked for or needed (he included them to make the floor plan work, etc...). If we figured out how to cut those, we’s get down to around 2600. He said that’s fine and we can try to cut those out but unless we’re cutting things like kitchens and baths, we won’t save a lot of money cutting misc living square feet. Thoughts on this theory?

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100% correct. People get so caught up on sf they lose sight of architectural integrity and flow of house. If you like everything else about the house that 400sf is a non factor with regards to the scope of the project.

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