I’ve spent my professional career photographing good design for architects, interior designers and landscape architects. So I understand and appreciate the importance of thoughtful and creative design ideas, and building something well. But I also understand the importance of keeping things simple when you can, and that sometimes perfection can be the enemy of the good. In the case of this little coastal Maine cottage, there was no architect involved, only an anonymous carpenter who, over one hundred years ago built this simple deck cantilevered off the main house and called it good. Propped up on the rocks, it overlooks the Maine coast and on the morning I was there it was so quiet you could hear the lobster men talking quietly on their boat as it motored by in the distance. I was reminded of something that Henry David Thoreau said that “the total cost of something is how much life you have to give in exchange for it”. Maybe investing our lives in our families and our souls can be more important than working harder to get a “perfect” piece of property or a “perfect” house design. Sometimes good is good enough….
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this "good" is great! thanks for sharing!