Anyone willing to help me 'brainstorm' a simple plan?
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Comments (20)Hi Sandra, yup my family is pretty much into our chickens, the kids have seen baby chicks hatch and watched them grow into adults. My dh did the turkeys this year, he took a class in processing birds at a working farm a few years ago. He processed one of our turkeys but we brought the rest to a processor and payed $10 each for the job (well worth it considering they were 30+ pound birds). Flogging is when a rooster attacks, they sort of jump up in the air and land on you w/their feet to scratch etc. it's the way they fight each other. I'm sure someone else can describe this better. Charles got threatened when we were trying to round him up, he did what comes naturally to many roo's. I do have one steady egg customer, I charge $3 per dozen, I used to buy organic chicken feed but found it not to be as fresh as the reg. feed and many times ended up finding bugs in the bags probably due to it not moving as quickly. The higher price also was a factor, about $8 more per bag. Claire, I love the pavilion your dh built you! it is very impressive. Your girls are very pretty, what are the gray hens? Americauna? Hi Susan, the covered pen is mostly for my bantams and crested birds, they live in the front coop with the attached pen. My standards (larger birds), live in the back coop (divided w/the recessed sliding door) and have a fenced chicken yard that they free range in. The only loss due to predator came this fall when a fisher cat pried open my back coop door and ran off w/one of my pullets. This was about three weeks after he ate our beloved cat. My dh promptly installed a dead bolt on the coop and trapped and disposed the fisher so he won't be bothering anyone anymore. The covered pen is great for young birds, bantams or crested breeds that can't see overhead which makes them easy prey for hawks around here. -Sheila...See Morewill you help me brainstorm a garden 'playhouse'?
Comments (13)My, I have my work cut out just looking at these wonderful sites! Ianna, that is quite the house, not a straight line in sight! Love it! Thank you Nell and Thank You Jen for that addy. That is *some* site! Janelle, thank you sooo much for that link, great inspiration. If only I could go back 30 years I might be tempted... ;-) That plant sale is amazing and her prices were so low! Interesting also that the size of her greenhouse is 10' x 16' which is the max we can go w/out a permit. Probably the same regs there. After seeing it I think we'll build that size as well instead of the smaller one we had planned. Not much more money or work and better to do it right. I also borrowed a stack of books from the library so have a lot of info to go thru. DH says he can build it in a week but we have to wait for all this snow to leave so I have a month or more to plan it. Will update "when"! :-) So grateful to everyone for all the help and if there are any other ideas please post....See MoreAnyone built/willing to look at an Ahmann home plan?
Comments (9)Our plan is marked 78698 but it would seem it is no longer available. It is a ranch design anyway. What matters most is not anyone else's preferences, but your own. If you can visualize your own living in this space, then proceed. For example, we very much wanted all the bedrooms together despite the current trend to have a split area for the master. We wanted the kids close when they were young and needed us in the night, and closer still when they were teens and coming or going during the night--with or without permission, lol. That kind of preference is why we chose to build instead of buying a house off of the market. Your first step is to really decide what you want. If you and your spouse are on the same page, it will make the whole process so much easier. Take the advice you get here with a grain or two of salt. Nobody here knows you, your family, your site, your budget, your preferences more than you do. I prefer the powder room where it is for daily living and for entertaining purposes. If I wanted a powder room off the garage, I would add one on, not move the existing one. That said, we have one off of our garage through the laundry area and it is never ever used. Wish I had followed my gut and taken it out (might do this some day) in order to have a larger laundry. The double height room does divide a crowd. Some love it, some hate it. True what has been said about noise and heating/cooling. Yet they are popular for a reason as well. Open space, light, and height do give a free feeling and a connection of people who are in various spaces/activities. If you don't care for the open plan or double height, you could get a great bonus/play space by decking over the great room/entry. It would be doable rework. If that is what you are really wanting, there may be a better plan out there for you. If your plan were my build, I would remove the wall into the laundry and have a large mudroom/laundry area. I see no purpose for the wall since you can close off the whole area with the hall door if you wish to during entertaining. We also have an interior kitchen. I love it. I would move either the cooktop or the sink to the island. Our kitchen is the gathering space and I love having it in the center of our home. Oversize the windows in your nook and you won't feel closed in at all. If you run a cluttered kitchen, not being able to shut it off may bother you. I figure people who come to my home come to visit us, not our mess....it works for our family. You do have a separated dining area for holiday meals. One thing we did add into our plan is a walk-in 7 x 12 pantry. I dearly love my pantry and it is my favorite perk in our house. Perhaps you could slide in a mudroom half bath/pantry room by extending the space and simultaneously extending your garage. Closet, bathroom, closet windows are a personal choice. I do like the closet being away from the sleeping area so the sleeping spouse can stay that way while the other is getting ready. Make it work for you. HTH. Brian...See MoreHelp me brainstorm entry tables!
Comments (23)I would put the round table there, but not centered under the light... I think that would be awkward and your foyer doesn't really look large enough for it. I also think the curved staircase would be highlighted with a nice table near it's curve. I don't think I would put a bench... when I had a curved staircase similar to yours I wanted something high there. I originally put a table there, but didn't want anything decorative like a vase on the table top because of our dogs and cat and I didn't want to hang a lot of small things and the curved wall wouldn't allow for any larger pictures... I ended up putting a large/tall tree there....See Morephylrae
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