We are officially wrapping up the design phase and entering the building stage of our project. The full set of plans have been submitted to the county for permits and we made our final payment to the designer. In a few days, we will work out the details of the contract with our builder (fixed price, cost plus, or hybrid). We also get to sit down and look at an itemized cost estimate which, up until now, has been a very rough target that we were all trying to squeeze the design parameters to meet. Tuesday we will get a much more accurate picture of how close we are to our budget. I expect that the pace is going to pick up rapidly once those county permits get approved.