It worked

My drafting was a success. We finally got something back that resembles what we want. It's not perfect, but now we're down to tweaks rather than major stumbling blocks.

Two concerns at this point:

1. Square footage is creeping up again. We're up over 2700 on the main floor (from 2400), which doesn't sound like much but is tens of thousands of dollars. We're going to try to trim a few inches here and there to see if we can get it down some.
2. We haven't totally figured out how the garage is going to work. It's going to have to sit on the front of the house, which is something I was very much against going in, but one of the many compromises I've made to get something reasonable. It has to be side facing. That's in the covenants for the neighborhood. But...should the doors face in towards the rest of the house or away, off to the side? Many pros and cons for both here. I'll spare us all from the details of that decision for now. Suffice to say we're going to have to work through that soon.