When you build something, no one is closer to it than you. Indeed, even though you’re building it for someone else, deploying your effort and tools to a piece of wood imbues the work with some kind of far-out-right-on-Birkenstock-ish tacit ownership. I suppose you could say that your actions and the piece of wood become the same — and no one owns you. So there you have it, from my moon- child file.
And the result of this is that if a paint job needs re-painting or a drywall corner didn’t get sanded quite flat or you didn’t squeeze those cabinet face frames as dead flush and seamless as you wanted to — you see it.
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