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.
If you’re working on your own house, like so many of us do, you live with seeing it!!!
Problem is, sometimes you don’t see it until you’ve painted and drywalled it or put on the siding or framed the stair stringers. Some mistakes you can live with. Others, not so much.
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