As Usual, I Have Too Many Ideas

I spent much more time than I planned this past week on a theoretically quick project.  Don’t you hate when that happens?  Sketching my ideas for renovating our house wasn’t supposed to take so long.  
 
I have several projects in mind for our house.  As a result, I had many ideas about each one floating through my head.  I decided I should document my ideas, so I could set it all aside and not risk forgetting what I wanted before the big day finally came.  So about ten days ago, I purchased one of those inexpensive software packages for designing houses. 
 
First, I needed to develop a good drawing of our house as it is now.  However, the base drawing was easier said than done.  Our house is old, two-story, and was added onto a couple of times.  Plus, there are three dormers on one end of the house.  This all resulted in many odd corners and dimensions.  And being the details person that I am, I was determined to make my drawing as accurate as possible.  This took two days and a lot of running back and forth with a measuring tape before I thought it was pretty close.
 
But of course, I wasn’t done.  I still had to add my proposed remodeling changes.  Luckily, I figured out how I could copy the existing floor plan and make a new version with the changes.  However, since we have proposed changes on both floors of our house, and a couple possible options for each, this required several more drawings.  The bulk of the work took another two days.  Even after that, I went back to the drawings a few times to add additional notes as I thought of them.
 
I can rest easier now, knowing my ideas are captured in files and on printouts.  I really hope I can put them to use improving our house some day.  But as we all know, remodeling a house is not cheap.  I guess my husband was right when he wryly pointed out I need to sell some books first.  Which begs another question:  If you were a writer who received a large advance check, what would you spend it on? 

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