I looked around my house and tried to remember the decisions I needed to make along the way. Some things did not apply, like seismic considerations. Once you'v

I looked around my house and tried to remember the decisions I needed to make along the way. Some things did not apply, like seismic considerations. Once you've built a house, you realize that every single little thing you see, and every thing you don't see because it is covered, involved a decision about technology, materials, crew, method, minor adjustments, and sometimes fixups. I mean, EVERY ONE. Each square inch. It did not get there by accident. As for the list, the good news is that most of the knowledge and experience came from others. For most of those things, I just needed to find our enough about it to know whom to turn to, or to make a decision to NOT to do it because it involved more costs and complications (i.e. basement).