First impressions can take a while

You're standing in the front door, you look up.
. . .

Of course, you have to imagine tongue-and-groove covering just about everything you see (drywall sheathing only the horizontal beam), and a railing along all the edges of the loft.

But you get the idea: There's a lot going on overhead, and a lot of light hitting your eye from the far end -- which is a wall-sized sliding door.

I'm lovin' it.

At some point in January, after looking at plans for months and months, I woke up with a big smile one morning. In the dream I'd just had, I'd walked through the door and looked around -- and this is just about what I saw.

It was the first time I'd been able to visualize the impact of the place, and that was as delightful then as it is now.