Details

They say football is a game of inches. Well, designing a house is also a game of inches. And details. They also say "the devil is in the details," and all those inches are details. Tricky, tricky stuff. We think we may have things "nailed down," but we won't know until we meet with the designer and she puts it all in the drawing. This process gives a visceral appreciation for the Pareto rule or one of its corollaries, "the last 20% of the design takes 80% of the time." We met with the guy who runs one of the local 84 Lumber stores, and our builder works with him a great deal so they have a great relationship. We were trying to get our arms around the windows, and I think we've got most of that now. But as we were leaving I told him that I now knew why people hired architects for thousands and thousands of dollars, and told me architects are good at putting things in plans that are difficult for builders to build. He said he thought we were going about things in the right way. Made me…