We take whatever we are given, and push it for all it’s worth. New construction, renovations, and additions all come with unique sets of rules and challenges. Sometimes difficult budgets, sizes, or sites can yield wonderful results. But wonderful results just don’t appear, you have to work at them. Making a building is difficult. It’s more like a marriage or raising children, and less like picking out a car. Just about anything worth a darn takes hard work, determination, imagination, and a sense of purpose (and humor).