7/21- Amarillo Build Day

Today we had our 7th build day. We painted the interior and exterior of this house for a Somalian family that had 14 children. This habitat house had a fairly large footprint, with 6 bedrooms, although there wasn't much else in the house other than bedrooms, bathrooms and a kitchen. As many people were excited to get their hands dirty and paint, I spent a large portion of the day putting up the painter's tape so that our group's overzealousness at times was not counterproductive.
We also saw another Habitat house that was waiting for final inspection before move in. I have to admit that I was pretty disappointed in the floor plans of the building, which included a kitchen that opened up into another space, as there seemed to be alot of useless dead space in the kitchen enclosure, while cramping room in the living room/eating room/ whatever they would turn this into. The bedroom layout was also peculiar for its window placement and installation of a cable box, as there wasn't a good place anywhere in this master bedroom to stick even a full size bed. I'm not one to get snobbish about design decisions, but I saw these major overlooks as being really dumb and poorly thought out. ("dumbest thing I ever saw")