Finalising the design of the house

You must be thinking that the first thing any one who want to build a house will do will be finalizing the design. I thought a bit different here, I wanted to see where will my borewell come first and then design the house accordingly. But yes I had the requirements ready.
Now it was to get that requirements in to a workable design.
Again I contacted my contractor Dinesh and asked if he can design, he said he has an architect friend who will do it. I did not think about going for a different architect even though I could find some more economical.
There is a reason for that,
It is always better to go with an architect who is suggested by the builder or the builder who is suggested by the architect.
The logic is simple, both of them are professionals and normally there will be an ego factor coming between these guys.
These normally leads to screwed projects. And there will be a blamig game as well. The architect will say "your contractor did not do what I said and that caused this issue"  and the contractor will say "the drawing your architect gave was wrong..." and you end up struggling getting them to agree for what you want
when they are friends and they are known to each other, they will work as a team. And yes they did work as a team for me.
My requirements were simeple ;-)

I want three bedrooms which are at least 12X12
Want parking for a big car (who knows what car my son is going to buy ;-))
Space for a garden or courtyard
Space for a small kitchen garden to grow curry leaf etc.
A kitchen where 3 people can work without rubbing each other's shoulder
A dining area were I can put a 6 seat dining table with enough space for people to walk around even if the chairs are pulled out
A decently large living area.
The house should be open enough where every one can communicate with each other.

I initially had plan to build two units where I can give one for rent. But I dropped that plan because the privacy factor changed my mind and yeah you never know what kind of people will come as your tenants.

Any ways after some 4 or 5 sittings with Ram (my architect)  we had a finalized design.

He came up with this amazing plan where I had the dining and kitchen at the ground level and a bedroom 2.5 feet below ground level. The living room comes on top of this bedroom. there is a court yard as well. that comes at the same level as the living room and above the car parking.
And yes 3 bedrooms. two bedrooms are 14X14 in size and the master bedroom much bigger with a work station and book shelf area in it.
And yes it did have big kitchen dining area and kitchen garden..
A very open plan with a lot of ventilation and light....
Thanks to Ram and his team...