Why a dome?

Melanie and I were living in Pennsylvania in 1997, but that was just a temporary location. We had intended from the start to move south and build a house. One day I was browsing around the internet for atypical house styles and came upon a picture of "Eye of the Storm". I was immediately hooked. I yelled for Melanie to look at the picture, and as soon as she did, she went to her photo album and pulled out a photo of when she'd been by the house--and been fascinated by the house--just a few years earlier. That's how quickly we made the decision to go in this direction.