It’s often the little things that get a girl like me excited. I’ve always thought this a fortunate trait, since the big things don’t come around as frequently. (Really, the bent can only go up once, and how many times will I marry John or get a new puppy?)

These days I’m finding joy in the framed walls for the small spaces: the pantry, laundry, linen closet, coat closets, cooking area, powder room, and our master closet (which is bigger than I thought!). It’s a whole lot easier to envision a space when it’s actually visible, even if it’s just outlined in 2x4s.

We’ve gone from standing in our vacant lot and imagining what our house might look like, to seeing it in broad strokes, and now the details are starting to fill in. It’s kind of like zooming in on an area using Google Earth.

Right now, we’re at that stage where it seems as though nothing is really changing. But it is… albeit slowly. Three weeks have managed to slip by since my last update. These are the bigger little things that have happened:

1. All of the interior walls on the main floor have been framed, though we’re still deciding whether to add one between the staircases and the great room.

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