Planning - We are continuing to make plans on the fly. We have had to adjust our plans for floor layout based on ventilation, plumbing and electrical conduit needs. We have had to think about where our light fixtures and electrical outlets need to be placed, as well as how many we will need as well as their purpose. While planning for these things, we're also having to preliminarily plan for the type of furniture that we'll have and where it will be located. Planning on the fly also likely means that I'll be doing a lot of cabinet-making. This is something that I've never done before, but I'm researching and finding standard sizes for things. I'm also drawing the specs in Autocad first so that I know what I'm building and how to build it.
Piles - We have piles of old wood in the back yard that is really starting to cramp the visual landscape. It looks terrible! We need to get a dump box pronto. We also have piles of magazines. There is one pile for kitchen planning, one for window and door pricing, one for colour and paint samples, and one for receipts (I really hate this pile in particular).
Palettes - As mentioned previously under piles, the colour scheming is beginning to become a bigger and bigger focus for us. One of my goals is to make the house as energetically passive and aesthetically congruent as possible from the exterior to the interior. We are maximizing southern exposure but with that, we also need to ensure that our colours and building materials will provide the refraction and absorption that we need all the while making sure it all looks good. Style will inevitably win the day although certain stylistic elements would be completely redundant in this old house.
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