You might be an architect

1. If you’ve ever noticed that a vent is 2 inches off center from the window.
2. If you’ve ever said the word Dichotomy in casual conversation.
3. If you have at least 7 architectural scales and none of them belong to you.
4. If you have designed your house at least twice, but never built it.
5. If you’ve ever been enraged at a sprinkler head.
6. You own more than 3 black sweaters.
7. You know all the components of a brick wall. You’ve never built a brick wall.
8. You know the difference between storefront and curtainwall, and you feel strongly about this.
9. You don’t like a restaurant because of the font they used on their menu.
10. You have opinions about line weights.
11. You know the minimum width of a toilet stall.
12. You have a preferred shade of white.
13. You took more than4 years to take at least 7 exams to be able to seal and stamp drawings, you have never sealed or stamped drawings.
14. People find what you do more interesting than you do.
15. The thing that you like the best will cost the most. Always
16. You think Thomas Jefferson was derivative.
17. You have a favorite German Modernist.
18. You know more than 3 designers from Norway.
19. You have a pen in your shirt pocket that cost more than your entire outfit.
20. You have your father’s mechanical pencil.
21. You’ve visited a city just to see one building.
22. You’ve called for wood trim to be painted to match the wall so that it will “go away”
23. Deciding between stainless steel light switch covers and white light switch covers is a harder decision than you would like to admit.
24. You have realized that if you align this thing with that thing it won’t be aligned with this other thing, and you have to decide which thing is more important to align with. This took all day Tuesday.
25. You always notice the ceilings in airports.
26. You have a preference of baby changing stations and you don’t have a baby.
27. You spend more time at weddings looking at the church than the bride or groom, including your own wedding.
28. You prefer Doric to Corinthian. Because you’re not an animal.
29. You’ve explained hierarchy to a stranger.
30. You’ve ever wished a paint sample the contractor applied for you to approve was blacker.
31. You wish the entry to Target was not so obvious.
32. You know the chief building inspectors name. You dislike them. You’ve never met them.
33. You own 2 eraser shields.
34. You know what an eraser shield is.
35. You have a favorite adjustable triangle.
36. You use white tracing paper, and think yellow trace is ridiculous.
37. You use yellow tracing paper, and think white trace is ridiculous.
38. You love the smell of sharpies.
39. You have selected a mortar color to match the brick. You have also selected a brick color to match the mortar.
40. Popcorn ceilings make you nauseous.
41. You’ve ever opened a new box of sharpies just to get the creative juices flowing.
42. You prefer zinc over stainless steel.
43. You were once thrilled to learn that they make corrugated perforated metal panels.
44. You’ve ever though chain-link would make a good exterior finish material on a house.
45. You’ve ever tried to convince someone they’re wrong by re-explaining the design concept.
46. You don’t understand why the fire department connection has to be on the front of the building right next to the main entry.
47. You’ve ever tried to figure out how to make trim flush with the wall.
48. You have a favorite reveal detail.
49. You can’t afford your own taste.
50. You finished reading this list