It's going to be a busy winter/spring on the home building front. While the framing continues, all of the micro decisions will begin to accumulate. Exciting and exhausting at the same time.
One thing I'm excited about is heading up to Milwaukee to pick out the reclaimed cream city brick we're going to use for an accent wall inside the house. There are few places left that do this kind of reclaim, and they basically have palettes that come and go in the brickyard from buildings within the state, and the cool thing about it is they are all different, given the age, where the building was, exposure to elements, etc. Some of it is 150 years old, some less than 100, some bright creamy white/yellow, some darker.