Yep, looking at about 1600 sf (roughly what we have now), with 3 bedrooms plus a craft room/guest room.

We want an attached 2 car garage with a shop space, as well as a mother in law apartment above (we're struggling with how to integrate this with the house without it looking like one long rectangular box). Maybe a butler's cottage?

The lot is more than 1 acre, but less than two, and mostly flat with at least one hill (JD, do I have this right?)

We are also trying to figure out how to make this as energy efficient as possible, and build in smart storage and utility (read: between stud shelving, laundry chutes, kitchen to garage garbage transfer chutes, etc). I have lots of ideas, some of which you can see here: www.pinterest.com/klaurance/dream-house/ (www.pinterest.com).