​The goal of this post is to save you money.  Maybe a whole bunch of money.
 
I get to meet a lot of people – almost exclusively inside their homes – and many of them tell me they need more space.  I hear a near-constant chorus of “If only my house were bigger.”  Some of those people do really need more space; most though just need to think about their house differently.  It’s easy to get tunnel vision about your house – you spend so much time there that it’s hard to imagine the dining room being anything different than overflow storage, or your coat closet not being a pantry.  In fact, just this past week, a potential client, Tina, called me to talk about an addition she thought she needed.  ​

In October of 2023 I said to my wife, Katherine, "Hey, what if I had an after-school class to teach kids about architecture?" 

I don't remember her exact reply, but I'm fairly confident it was something like, "that is such an amazing idea, you're so generous with your time, and smart, and talented, and handsome, and funny, and I can't believe I'm so lucky as to have married you." 

​I'm fairly confident that's what she said.  It seems like something she would say...