Here's the part where I start whining

So....drafters. We speak, the words go out into the air to be received by the intended recipient for the sake of communication, but communication doesn't occur. We tell them what we want and instead they do...well, I guess they do what they want. I don't know. They must think they are doing what we want, right? I've always said the burden of communication is on the communicator, but the recipient has to do his or her part as well.  They seem to want to throw stuff at the wall (figuratively) and hope we'll like it. I'm afraid our vision is much too specific for that to work.

So, this week I am learning to become a drafter again. I'm working up my own version of what I think we want. And in fairness, it is difficult. The way we want things to work together is extremely difficult to do without increasing the square footage quite a bit. So we'll have to compromise too.

All of this to get to a design we can live with that will be in range of our budget. It is not easy, but damn, I wish people would just listen and understand, or at least communicate if they don't understand. Don't just take a shot at it, especially if you want to charge $50 per hour for the work.