Possumblog

Well--

I just now tried calling her back, and she'd gotten busy on something at work. SO, Tales of the Building Committee!

It was fine--they'd gotten a contractor to work up a budget price, and other than it being way more than we thought, everything else continues apace. The drawings should be finished by the end of the month, which is, of course, almost here. Yikes. Someone needs to get busy getting stuff together to take bids.

The process has been relatively easy--after settling on a floor plan. That took some doing, mainly because of the occasional lack of focus on what we're trying to get done. I would have liked a bit more forcefulness from the architect to keep the thing going, but he's usually willing to do whatever he's told. Which is good in some ways, but if you're being told eleventy-hundred different things, it makes it a bit harder. The other thing is trying to make people understand how big something is. I know, because I do it all the time, but if you tell someone a room's 600 square feet, and they have no frame of reference, you might as well be telling them it's 600 bleeg flinbs. One fellow in particular seems obsessed with the size of certain rooms, even after having us point out exactly how big something is by marking it off in comparison to an actual room. It'll be bigger than anyone can believe.

We also had a nice meeting with them after church last night. They came and showed a PowerPoint presentation of the site plan and floor plans and talked a bit about it, and either everyone was more or less pleased, or just didn't really care that much, because there were only a few questions. I am hoping this is because we have bent over backwards to get input on this thing all along and have tried to make sure as many of the concerns are met as best we can ahead of time, rather than waiting until the last minute. I hope. (Boy, I hope.)

Posted by Terry Oglesby at November 14, 2005 11:31 AM