Future plans "the concept"

We absolutely love the house we've bought, location, architecture, neighbors.  But realistically it's probably 5 - 10 years before it's our dream home.  So everything we do to the house we'd like to do wisely, with future extension in mind.  And because of that we decided to get an idea of what we'd like the future extension to look like, so that we could plan around it in the mean time.

We've met architects before when we were looking at extending our last house.  So when my husband read about My Architect in The Age, we thought it was a good cost effective way to avoid future renovation problems.  They offer a great "first visit package" of concept drawings plans and views hand drawn, and then attach a fee schedule to take you through the various stages to completion.

We met Robert back in July when our second son was just 2 weeks old.  He came to the house, measured up, chatted and then sketched out various floor plan ideas for us.  We decided on a favourite which he then completed and sent to us.  Robert was fantastic to work with, we definitely seemed to relate on a design asthetic level, and we hope to progress the design further with him, when budget permits.

Here's the concept drawings he did for us.