Adventures in Remodeling: Confessions of an architect: Week 4

Confessions of an Architect

You would think that being a professional architect with 25 years of experience and running my own practice, I should know it all. Well early in my career I believed I knew it all. I opened an office as soon as I was licensed to practice confident that passing the grueling exams and completing an internship qualified me as an expert. However the more I practiced the more I realized how little I knew. Every project is unique with its own life story and lessons. Projects can be similar but they are never identical. Experience did teach me to be prepared for most potential problems (or like I prefer to call them situations) but it did not guarantee that I will always have an answer. What I have become really good at though is how to find the answer and to not be satisfied with illogical and non-practical solutions. So here I am documenting this adventure of our own home remodeling willing to candidly share with you my experience with its ups and downs, successes and failures recognizing that even an expert has still much more to learn.