Mihailo smiled, blew out the candle, and went back to his drawing table. He had ten new gotovi projekti in his head. And this time, he wouldn’t keep them to himself.

Jovana didn’t argue. Instead, she opened her laptop and showed him a website. “Look. These are the top-selling plans this month: a two-story house with a French balcony, a rustic mountain cabin with a stone fireplace, a minimalist cube with floor-to-ceiling windows. Each one comes with a full material list, electrical scheme, and foundation plan. A family can buy it today and break ground next week.”

One autumn afternoon, his daughter, Jovana, visited him. She was a practical woman, a manager at a construction supply company. She found him brooding over a half-finished sketch.

Over the following weeks, Mihailo worked with a young drafter named Luka to convert his hand-drawn plans into clean PDFs, 3D renders, and a bill of quantities. Jovana handled the marketing. They listed “The Hearth” on a popular Serbian platform for 49,000 dinars—roughly 420 euros.