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Pretty cool..
I thought we were building small at 650 square feet of living (with another 350 for the business office and 950 below for the heated shop and garage- ya gotta have priorities..)
Building small- the coolest part for me is I can look at every board, and every detail, and put as much effort into each piece as it deserves. I can conceptualize the whole project without giving myself a headache!
*Cool crib, How much home does anyone really need? Oops there goes the customer base. Jay, stay away from the Firestone tires. Skip
*We liked it. Reminds me of the fellow who's building down the street from me. He's speccing modest, energy efficient houses that look really nice and fit thoughtfully onto the lots. One of the adjoining property owners had the temerity to ask the builder to build bigger houses to enhance the value of his cookie-cutter megalonial. The builder was polite. I don't know if I could have been.Andy
*I thought it was great! I'd love to see more "itty bitty" houses in FHB. Maybe a regular feature?JonC
*I liked it, I would like to biuld one myself Great Idea
*I can't wait to see it.I'm beginning to think that a small place is what I want. Easier to heat, clean, etc. I can make the shop any size I want, but from my short experience here, it seems smaller is better for the living quarters.But I want lots of windows. Does this one have a buncha windows ???
*I designed a house for a friend who was single and ready to retire. It consisted of a bedroom with a large bath, a greatroom/kitchen, and a loft above the bedroom for guests. It had all the nicities people want now days like a fireplace, whirlpool tub and separate shower, decked out kitchen, and 2 car garage. What it didn't have was a lot of rooms. My friend got a lot of flak from everyone that she was making a big mistake building a one bedroom house. Turns out that the builder got orders for 2 more copies of the same house!
*It sure brings you back to reality.I'd rather a small well crafted home than a place where I barely visit half the rooms! I think the North American bigger is better fascination gets tired pretty quick.Usually having what you need gives greater pleasure that striving for what you don't!He also solves another fundamental challenge with housing: location, location, location!
*Hey Mark,how many square feet did you wind up with?Sounds like a real interesting house to me.
*Here's a photo of a crafter friend of mine who goes north in the summer and south in the winter in her housetruck. It has solar panels on the deck over the back porch, tambour doors for her kitchen cupboards, on-demand water heater, shower with a stained glass window, Jotul woodstove, queen-size bed over the cab, and note the wrought-iron brackets that hold up the cab-over part. She sews her suede handbags on her bird's-eye maple dining table. She had to put power steering in her house when her arthritis kicked up though...
*WOWI am every kind of impressed.b : )
*I loved it!How many starter-mansions have we seen with all space and no charm? Give me fine details and craftmanship, not to mention a SOUL, over lot-hogging, impersonal megalonials ANY DAY!(and yes, my clients all live in these sorts of houses...but they don't read this page..whew)
*Ya, that is relly cool! Are there any plans available for something like that?
*Plans. That would be my question as well.I wasn't able to get the magazine, but I looked at it on the shelf at the store.This and the house truck of Splintergroupie's friend, Zephyr are very inspiring. I have decided to possibly give up the dome idea, and build a 20x20 up the hill. Completely according to code, but with as much custom woodwork as I am able to put into it my own self. Starting place.... Plans that are 'approved'. Or will, in other words, be accepted by the county without my having to pay an engineer or make any other money outlay. Any ideas ? (Like maybe I should get my own durn thread ? LOL)
*Andy,Any chance that you could persuade Jay to weigh in here? Lots that I would like to know about this project not explained in the back cover blurb...
*Luka, FH issue 44 (Feb1988) has an article entitled "Vacation Cabin" that was sorta the inspiration for my cabin. Its 20x22 plus loft - lots of woodwork - easy to build - really a nice layout. Draw the plans yourself, if the county doesn't like them they tell you whats wrong and you fix until they're happy. If you are interested in the article, send me an e-mail...jim
*Jay Shafer entered his house in a contest in Natural Home magazine. They featured it in the November/December 2000 issue on page 50. There's a more detailed article (which Shafer wrote) and more pictures. He's got contact info listed as P.O. Box 607, Iowa City, IA 52244. Apparently he's an asistant adjunct art professor at the Iowa School of Art and Art History.
*Thanks Courtney...I'll try to lay my hands on a copy.
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