The juncture of responsibilities toward the environment and other human beings constitutes a significant input to designing a new home and its interiors. Because these responsibilities relate to the intent of those who will inevitably occupy the budding structure, one must strive to discover and implement those intentions through extensive discourse. No matter what one's design philosophy is, the overarching goal of architecture in its purest form should be to balance, protect, and represent the private lives of the dwellers - the client. I always fantasize, when designing a home, that that home is mine. I see it visually in my head, I dream about it, I live in it, furnish it, I even imagine everyone telling me how much they love it - it's crazy, I know it is, so call me crazy.

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When you design buildings for a living, it's hard not to personalize them. I become deeply attached to the structures I create; I never forget them, the clients I designed them for, or all the meetings that brought about the final design. The design process of each project claims an indelible place in my consciousness. Every residence I design becomes a permanent part of my very being. Strangely, they never leave my consciousness. I never entirely escape the job site after my clients take occupancy, and I become to them little more than a faded memory, a good memory nonetheless, but I know I fade away with time. No, I don't haunt or stalk the homes I design, but I do feel a special bond to the soil on which it stands - wasn't that poetic or what?