For more than a month we’ve been working hard to come up with a design for a building that our client loves and yet is within the budget we have to work with. That tricky balance is always a real challenge but for some reason this project is particularly tough. After a couple of long drives today, looking at every building I saw along the 100 miles I drove, I felt I had enough ideas to give it another try. The first concept was square timber framed with large boulders around the base. It definitely looks West Coast - something our client is looking for but was a little too formal and didn’t make me smile. So while I was still in the mood I kept drawing, this time with a log structure and rocks once more. This version made me grin… maybe the client will too? :)