Well good news and bad news on this project.
The good news is, we have settled on what we will be building. We have to build an attached extension on the house, we can't build a external building. The reason for this is my town has a height restriction on external buildings, and the restriction is only 15ft, and that includes the peek of the roof, so to go that route I would only be able to get a single story building.
We plan to bring the extension forward onto the driveway and go back from the front of the house for about 60ft. The width will be 26Ft. This will give me 1500 sq feet for each floor (a total of 3000 sq feet), this also keeps the wife happy because we have to redo the entire front of the house, which will turn the house into a 3 car garage, with the space, we will be able to fit 5 cars (2 doubled up on each other) which my wife is happy about.
This also makes running all the services that much easier, we can use my existing panel for the electricity and I'll be able to rough in plumbing to my septic without issue.
The architect said he will have drawings for us on how he plans to tie everything into the house within a week or two.
The bad news is, I won't be breaking ground this year. Talking with the architect and my general contractor, based on the amount time it usually takes to push through anything from the ministry of environment, they figure it will be at least a month or two before I actually get any kind of approvals, and they figure they need about 4 months of work time to actually finish the building.
Considering we don't have drawings yet and haven't even gone to the town yet, it seems much less likely that this won't happen till next year.
Anyway still moving forward, I think 3000 sq feet even if I have to share it with the some cars, should be more then sufficient for space, I mean that is bigger then the average home and it will be 100% open, with nothing restricting where I can put games.