What would you do with 80 acres?
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What to do with acres of bay laurel trees? SELL?
Comments (3)There is a free section in craigslist where you can advertise for someone to get them for free if they dig them up. I've had good luck with unloading free stuff this way. People want the strangest things. But sometimes I can't get rid of something no matter what. So first thing I'd do is call some local tree farms since they have the equipment to dig them and customer base to sell them. They will probably tell you're they're not interested because this is not the right time of year to dig. That's when you go to craigslist. You'll get a truck load of day labores with shovels attempting to take them. They'll work on them for a while until their shot caller gets tired of standing there. If it makes you feel any better, they're all going to die if dug now anyway....See Morewhere would you build a house on this 2.5 acres?
Comments (38)Dusty, what you are missing is that the aerial photo doesn’t give us details that would help us help YOU with the layout. Is it dead flat? Does water puddle anywhere? Do you need minimum clearances between buildings? Setbacks on front, rear, and side? Keeping some tree buffer is a good idea, but you didn’t really draw that in on your pictures either. If you go to your local GIS page you can get contours of the property. Here are some of mine: Now, if I just showed you the aerial picture you’d see this: And then you’d have no clue that it’s on a decent hillside, and over two acres. Asking where to put a house on the aerial picture is stupid, because you can’t tell what you’re looking at. It looks like there might be a slight hill along the top rectangle and off the driveway leg of it, not a substantial climb and only really one spot to put the bulk of of house. It doesn’t give you a sense of how water flows or where a common sense location for an outbuilding or pool would be, either. None of these things could someone on the Internet glean from the one middle picture. Even one basic elevation shot would help: That itty bitty van behind the bush at the cul de sac is my enormous Nissan van. At least with this picture you can tell the basic elevations, view, and even sun exposure. And ALL of those should impact how you position your home and any accessory buildings. We want to help, but we need more and better data. Make sense?...See MoreWhat do you think about this floor plan on 2.5 acres in the country?
Comments (38)I like that the house is going to have a simple roof line. It presents nicely to the front. I've been enough homes without foyers that not having one doesn't worry me -- if it were a large home, that would be different. I like that there are no internal rooms that get no light (but the place does need more windows... especially the master bedroom, and bedrooms 3 and 4, which are on corners of the building and could easily have windows on two different walls. I'm not crazy about the door from the living room to the master, some privacy would be nice. I do like that you only have two interior eating places rather than three. A coat closet is lacking. The kitchen has enough problems that a trip to the Kitchen Forum is advised... I mean, if you really do decide to go ahead with this plan. Bedroom 3, if you remove the closet, could be sufficient for the man cave. If it is for TV in a darkened room, you could consider Bedroom 2, which really can only get light from one side, again no closet if the man wants to have a maximal man space. Bath 2 - when you open the door to the toilet/tub area, you will have to get up, jump off to the side or into the tub, so that the door doesn't bang you on your way out. I am not a fan of a master bath containing closets for clothing at all. I do think you can do better, but I will note this is an improvement on many of the stock plans out there. A lot of the design for your place will depend on topography, where any views are, and what you intend for the balance of your land. So, often a stock build will not help you address these things. And as Mushcreek noted, your lay of land may indicate your master works best in the front, but this is not usual. If you are far enough off the road, you get more flexibility, certainly. And, as Mrs Pete and CP noted, you can do a lot of things if you are skilled in photographic principles. How many are there of you? PS: Crawl space... really HARD to access if you need to go down and repair things. Back when I was house hunting in 1991, and I was young and physically ready for most anything, I knew enough not to consider something with a crawl space. (Wish I'd been smart enough then about kitchens, too...) PPS: If you do have a crawl space or a basement, where are the stairs to it going to go?...See MoreHello, what suggestions do you have for this 80s fireplace?
Comments (1)You should remove the clock and replace the firebox with a gas insert that wraps around the corner. I might also replace the stone on the floor with a solid surface or tile. But, frankly, I agree with your husband. A cleaner look would update this a lot....See MoreMacmex
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