How Many Analogies Can You Fit Into An 'Epic' Project

Those that know de-I well (which should be most of you since I don't get a lot of surfers our outsiders here), know my unbridled love of the analogy. In fact, partner Lakeview Coffee made it a condition of continued involvement with my firm that I not reuse old worn-out analogies. He thought it was a way to get me to stop, not realizing it has just set off a entire creative process of finding new and interesting analogies.

Now that we are in full swing on the 'epic' home expansion project, the well for analogies is about to go to overflowing. Where to start. We intimated Egyptian in yesterdays posts. What about Roman, The Great Wall of China, the temples of India, Mayan, Aztec, Inca. Need more modern? How about Gothic churches? Hoover Dam? The Golden Gate Bridge? The possibilities are endless. I may go mad with this actual process of the remodel but I will have fun writing about it.

Plans

Continuing to push the boundaries of cell phone camera capability I decided to show you the plans of the expansion

The Downstairs

You can see that the stairway up will be just to your right as you enter the front door. The hallway you enter into will be open to the second story. The current 'hole' is to be cut down in size and become a storage area and will also be the new wine cellar.

The Upstairs

As you come up the stairs you will enter a hallway. The big room to the back is the office. The room to the front is Wife's craft/photography room. And the rooms to the side and back are the exercise room and bathroom. There will be decks off both the front and back. We have French doors going from both the front and back rooms to the porches and between those rooms and entering from the hallway to the front room to allow us to open the whole area and create as much a feeling space and light as possible and vistas in as many directions as possible. There will be picture windows on the sides of both the office and craft room for purposes of capturing the views.