Author: anne

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 …

Here is the floor plan for the Atlanta IKEA store: Other good info thanks to Jennoconn from the IKEA Fans Forum: Parking: I always park in the lower level of the deck in either C or D aisles. This is close to the escalator/elevators and the moving ramp when you bring your stuff to your Read More …

OK, reality has set in – the house has to be smaller! Here is a smaller version of my house plan – basically, I’ve squared up the basic house and chopped off the downstairs bedrooms and extra bath. But I could not make this work since there was no place for our study (what we Read More …

OK, found the digital!First shot is tung oil on Southern Yellow Pine, but with dark & pure tung oil combinations. On the right, I wiped pure tung oil on, let it sit, wiped off the excess, then wiped on dark tung oil. On the left, I mixed pure & dark tung oil cut with citrus Read More …