This Old Ho...
Apr. 4th, 2003 10:43 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
misfoksBusybusy lately! I'm now the proud owner of a 2.2 acre lot. Not the 35 acre lot I was trying for, but still not a bad size really. Surveying is complete, so I know the proper boundaries for building setbacks and putting up fences; contracts have been signed for getting a well and pump in place, and the power company is beginning to roll, in its signature snail's gait, on getting electricity installed. Meanwhile, I'm working on the fun part of designing the floorplan for my house. Woo!
I've picked up resources on traditional European house styles and general Victoriana for inspiration and blatant plagiarism, been searching for more info on historical construction methods, and have various ideas of various quality scribbled out on various scraps of paper and AutoCAD files. Since I'll be building out-of-pocket, construction will by necessity go in phases. This means the part built first will be essentially an apartment of its own, so I can be living in it while working on the remainder; this makes the entirety of the design interesting for trying to keep a flow, since both phases will be designed as independent entities--I have to consider the final use for the various parts so they come together as a whole.
Then there'll be layout of the rest of the property to be considered. Gotta be lotsa enclosed grass for Dawg to scamper around in, naturally. Layout of the barn and paddocks will depend on prevailing winds, and again keeping a natural flow to the whole place will play a part in what goes where. It'll be a slow and gradual process, with lots of headaches involved of course, but I'm pretty stoked that the whole thing has finally started rolling. And it certainly won't be giving me much time to waste online. A decent trade-off though, I think. :D Friends are all invited to the housewarming when it finally happens, naturally.
Stay tuned--but don't hold your collective breath for frequent updates. ;)
(Oh, and the subject line above comes from when old roomies were channel-surfing, and the program listing on cable truncated the title of This Old House. No, the crazy lady from a previous post didn't turn up again.)
I've picked up resources on traditional European house styles and general Victoriana for inspiration and blatant plagiarism, been searching for more info on historical construction methods, and have various ideas of various quality scribbled out on various scraps of paper and AutoCAD files. Since I'll be building out-of-pocket, construction will by necessity go in phases. This means the part built first will be essentially an apartment of its own, so I can be living in it while working on the remainder; this makes the entirety of the design interesting for trying to keep a flow, since both phases will be designed as independent entities--I have to consider the final use for the various parts so they come together as a whole.
Then there'll be layout of the rest of the property to be considered. Gotta be lotsa enclosed grass for Dawg to scamper around in, naturally. Layout of the barn and paddocks will depend on prevailing winds, and again keeping a natural flow to the whole place will play a part in what goes where. It'll be a slow and gradual process, with lots of headaches involved of course, but I'm pretty stoked that the whole thing has finally started rolling. And it certainly won't be giving me much time to waste online. A decent trade-off though, I think. :D Friends are all invited to the housewarming when it finally happens, naturally.
Stay tuned--but don't hold your collective breath for frequent updates. ;)
(Oh, and the subject line above comes from when old roomies were channel-surfing, and the program listing on cable truncated the title of This Old House. No, the crazy lady from a previous post didn't turn up again.)
