Builders walk a floor plan and see problems. Buyers walk the same plan and see furniture. That gap is where forever home regret comes from, and it is measured in five figures at a time.
Below are seven scenarios, each drawn from real floor plans our readers have loved. In every one, something is quietly wrong: the kind of detail a builder catches on the first walkthrough and a buyer discovers the first week after move in.
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Keep score as you go. Most people miss at least two. By the last question you will read plans differently, and the right answer key is waiting at the end, along with the plans that get every one of these right.