Month: November 2006

Here are larger versions of the draft floor plan – the first floor particularly is a VERY LARGE file!

We’ve got some special items we’ve collected over the years that we want to build into the new house. The most problematic will be the sand blasted glass piece made by Robert Bischoff: We’ve got to figure out how to mount this as a fixed window – with glass on the front and back to Read More …

MH (the contractor and designer for our ICF house) has sent me the first draft of our plans. This is the low-res version, so the measurements are not readable. The side with the wide porch is the north end of the house and the formal entrance. Our entrance will be under the carport/porte cochere.

Here are a couple of huge pictures that are panoramas of the house site. The first is taken from about where the north end of the house will be. The second is taken from about where the south end of the house will be. In both, the gate at both ends of the panorama is Read More …

Here is an older aerial view of the upper 30 acres of the farm. The curving line on the left side is the county road along our frontage. The two large buildings at the top are our barns. The planned house site is about a third of the way from the bottom straight south of Read More …

Here is the current version of my house plan. We’ve cut off the two downstairs extra bedrooms, flipped the house (to the left is north) for better views and reduced the size of the formal living-dining room. This layout lets us put the formal entrance and front porch on the narrow end of the house Read More …