Last year, we finally obtained our long-awaited building permit.  Exciting, I know.  It's a feat not for the faint at heart.  BUT, I went to college, I'm Academy trained, business owner, mother of two... I can handle anything... right?! First, the fun part: we hired an Architect: Vantage Design (vantaged@earthlink.net).  Phillip Vogt took my design and made it into a workable, permit-able structure.  He was wonderful to work with, and we highly recommend him.  We had to get a fire sprinkler plan done (Bixler Fire, Brock Bixler, bixlerfire@att.net), a Structural Engineer (who was extremely affordable, and great at his job, but very busy and not in a hurry), a Landscape Architect (Mary-Kate Boyd, marykate8@yahoo.com; I'm partial, because she is my…