Custom Floorplan Too Expensive

While ideal, the concept of having a custom floorplan/design drafted up for us is just going to cost too much. The idea was that we could take an existing plan and have an architect modify it for us. Apparently there are some legal issues and the architect we wanted to use would have to redraw the plans from scratch at the cost of about $8,000-$11,000. We'd rather put that money towards actual construction, even if the plan is an "off the shelf" layout.