The making of our nest

How do birds learn to make nest? What shapes, what colours, what materials, who told them?

We are in the midst of sourcing for an interior designer (ID) or contractor for our place and to make such a important decision, we have to gamble and do a trial and error, to think of that is stressful enough.

Money on the other hand is a inevitable factor as much as I wish I could ignore it. I mean a glamorous house would not lighten our burden or provide any comfort if that resulted in a huge load of baggage we have to shoulder thereafter.

No one could tell us a definite answer. We, yes, the owner and occupier of the place have to decide what we want, when neither of us, actually knows what we want.

What I really want is a cottage country house, but reality says no. In the end, I think we are going for the raw minimalist concept, and to scare myself, I started questioning if that is really what I wanted, yes, after meeting 2 designers and adding to about 5 hours of discussions, and with 1 proposal on today.

I appreciate IDs that questions to help us get the idea, and yet there are others who are oblivious and abrupt, like "if you don't tell me what you want, how do i know?". Erm, hey there, I thought I pay to engage your help, if I know, and I can design, I will do it myself. That amount of money would bring me lotsa Chanel than to throw it into space, silly. 

I wish this could be as easy as picking up random twigs. Then again, perhaps it's not so easy for them too.