Over the past couple days, Brad has been chalking lines on the slab for the new house, and this morning he took me to “walk through” it and make some decisions.

In the course of doing so, we took out one set of double doors (three sets in a 1100 square foot building was seeming excessive, and one went nowhere at all), added a window or two, moved my book nook, decided where the stove and fireplace would go, got rid of one closet, added another, and made one a lot bigger.

While doing this, Brad had the idea of an business for people planning a house. It’s a big warehouse where you can chalk out your house and then roll in movable walls to see how the rooms could actually lay out. Sounds like a great idea to me. It’s very hard to visualize all this, even with a life-size floor plan.

The next step is to cut the grid into the floor. We’re going to cut it before we start construction, but will wait to stain and seal it until afterward this time.

Other than that, I’ve been planning a bigger, better garden for next year. I’ve ordered seeds, and we built this lovely propagation rack to do seed starts inside.