Room for More

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  One advantage of designing your home instead of just finding a stock plan that's good enough is the ability to personalize it to your family. The big tree that we had to take down just happens to stand right about where a column will be on the main level, and we are hoping to take a slice of the tree trunk, sand it up smooth, and embed it in the concrete floor with the column rising out of it. (The column is more spatial than structural in its purpose, so it works just fine to have it bear on a shimmed plank of wood!)