This past week we finally received our building permit which officially marked the end of demo and shift to construction phase. We’ve settled into a routine where Laura walks the main floor of the house each morning to either disrupt or confirm Peder’s plans. The beauty of doing the work ourselves is that there really isn’t a penalty in the form of a change order if we make changes along the way. Instead, we are able to embrace iterative design.
These choices may be very simple, such as to paint or not paint accent bricks black. In this case, we simply painted one of the sills and confirmed this is the look we want. Worse case, we could just simply paint over it again in white or another color.
Other decisions may require a bit of imagination to envision how the space is going to look. This past week, we used a tape measure, blue tape, boards, and some foam insulation to help with visualizing the dining room space relative to future placement of our couch in the living room. Since this will be an open concept mixed space, we want to make sure we are maximizing sight lines and flow. As Laura ”sat” in various seats around the mock dining room table, we realized that where we had planned to open a wall to create easy access to the hall bath would better serve as a dry bar and side board area. Had we left the design as originally planned on paper, we would have been left with that awkward bathroom door in sight of the dining table.
Olive Pit 2 Perfect 