Yes? No? Maybe?
Sara (who has some practical, possible future career related questions to ask)
In high school, I used to draw dungeon floorplans for playing Dungeons & Dragons. Does that count? 
Iāve watched This Old House for twenty years, does that count?
MarkB
Was that with āTim the Toolā man?
Doesenāt the Jerry Freeman do that kind of stuff?
Nah, it was Timās arch-nemesis Bob Villa (originally), followed by Steve Thomas and now Kevin OāConnor. Tim āThe Tool Manā Taylor was on Home Improvement.
I bow to your vast knowledge.
You have to write the important things big or people will miss it. 
Miss what?
Er, yesā¦ quite right. Sorry, letās try that again.
CALLING ALL ARCHITECTS OR HOME/BUILDING DESIGNERS: HAVE SOME PRACITCAL, POSSIBLE FUTURE CAREER RELATED QUESTIONS TO ASK, PLEASE!?!?
There now, is that better? Pity the board doesnāt support flashing neon text the size of an elephantā¦ but weāll see if this helps any.
Sara (Who honestly does help there is someone in one or both of these careers on the board she could chat with.)
Ya donāt have to yell! But it is noisy in here tonight.
I did a Google and this was the first hit:
http://www.designcommunity.com/discussion/17992.html
also:
http://architecture.about.com/od/forumslistservs/index_a.htm
MakrB
Try this forum- thereās several who frequent that one(itās my other daily board visit) Heck, half the folks there are practically in the business since they are so knowledgeable about the subject.
http://americanbungalowmagazine.com/ubbthreads/ubbthreads.php?
Wow! Thanks!
I did do some searching on Google, Ask Jeeves, etc. before posting this thread and ran into the About.com site, which was helpful a fair deal in the architect department but not in the home/building design department, all the links related to that seemed messed up or not helpful to what I was looking for. Since I had a username and password there, tried to access the related forum, but it wouldnāt let meā¦ even though I could log into other stuff it errored out when trying the architecture forum. I hope itās just a temporary glitch. After so many pages of non-helpful stuff, I got frusrated and came here. Course, someone else would have better luck googling and knowing somethingā¦ thank goodness! Forums, other than the about.com one that might be helpful. Yeah!!!
Thanks Mark and Cowtime!
Sara
If you have a kitchen question I may be able to help. Thatās my line of work.
Tony, did you design that? Itās outstanding. I want a decent kitchen. I hate my kitchen.
Sara, maybe you should stay at a Holiday Inn Express. Itās supposed to make you an expert on any subject according to the TV.
Dang, I wish Iād remembered that a few months ago. I just met with our cabinet maker yesterday after spending almost a year trying to come up with our kitchen. Iāt s a nightmare to work with- 4 doors, 3 windows and a pantry. I finally came up with something that may just work and the cabinet man is even using the shop drawings from original cabinets from the 20s. I hope that when we are done it will look like it was original to our house. (there has never been ANY cabinets, originally, only in the pantry) 
I was going to put real linoleum back on the floor but when we ripped up the two layers of vinyl and the 1/4" plywood, lo and behold, thereās the original oak. I just canāt cover that up.
Got any suggestions for countertop? That would be period(1920)? Cabinets will be flush doored, painted an off white with polished nickle w exposed hinges,cabinet latches,etc. like they use to make way back when.
The cabinet man is using a 1 1/2"X18" piece of oakthat I had saved for years from a tree on my dadās farm, for one wall. I will need top for the space between the stove& fridge and also at the end of my sink. The sink is one of the old 5ā6" cast iron, double bowl with double drainboards and the dishwasher will have to go at the end of that, so needs a top. Iām thinking either soapstone or apx. 2" hex tile. 
Hi Sara- That was my major in college although not my final career resting place. Maybe I can answer some questions for you, thoughā¦
Robin
I weep at the sight of Tonyās kitchen. He would weep at the sight of mine!
Robin
Thanks.
The initial ādesignā came from an architectural design firm. I had to work closely with the contractor to turn it into a reality as many ādesignsā are outside the scope of fitting appliances with job conditions.
Another similar storyā¦
I met with clients today for an initial meeting on their $3,000,000.00 custom home bought from artists renderings and blueprints. The actual model house is going up right now and only in the rough framing stage. We went there to layout their kitchen and I showed the clients several areas where the items on the blueprints show appliances that donāt fit the allocated spaces. I spent a few hours tweaking the layout and they are pleased with my suggestions.
Very cool kitchen. Almost too pretty to cook in!
Thanks all for your responsesā¦ did eventually manage to get into the about.com architecture forum (finally had to get a new username and password there) and after a bit of posting and reading there (sorry Robin, didnāt notice your post before diving into the other forum, but thank you all the same 
) have concluded that as appealing as this line of work is, it just isnāt very compatable with other things/plans/hopes here.
sigh
Have an opportunity to obtain some schooling or training, which would be a good thing as well as useful/helpful, but deciding what to get into sure can be complicated. 
Kinda like trying to find something really important while not knowing what it looks like, where to find it or even what itās called for certain. 
Well, eventuallyā¦
Sara