Major progress today: Linda and I meet with our Gate City Bank mortgage lender, and sign off on the construction loan. I text everyone instantly thereafter. So, now our committee (architect, builder, construction supervisor, homeowner) really needs to meet.  Aside from conferring about ‘project updates,’ we need to review the entire long list of Green Star requirements so that contractors can shape their work accordingly. I suggest that we vote up, down or question—mark on each item individually, then have a conference call—it is awkward for me to get down before or during the Cocoon foundation work on the 7^th.  I’ve already missed the mandated meeting with neighbors, which was held today.  All neighbors within 350 feet radius were invited.  As it turns out, only two showed up. But one has a substantive concern about property lines which I need to address.

Separately, Marc responds to my painstaking effort to reallocate doors with a plan that makes frankly better sense.  I had wanted to take the old kitchen door, repair the damaged veneer and make it our bedroom door.  He points out that for the sake of uniform appearance among the doors in the master bedroom, it would make more sense to put the restored kitchen door on the guestroom.  Among his considerations is the fact that at some point we may need wheelchair access, and so we can’t simply put doors back where they were.  For critical access points, he has designed in wider doors.  Fortunately the kitchen door is wide enough to serve.