With the plants you overwinter, do you partition off only the part with the overwintering plants and heat it, or do you heat the entire greenhouse? Unfortunately, i have to heat the entire greenhouse. With the exhaust fan on one end of the GH and the vents on the other end of the GH, i would not be able to regulate the temperature. Is your foilback wall permanent or do you put it up for winter and take it down when the weather warms up? I have tried it both ways, i just leave it up now. I'm not gaining or loosing any light either way and i dont have to worry about storing it somewhere else. What percentage of light does your shadecloth block? Honestly i dont know, it was used when i got it. I did'nt know much about shadecloth at the time. I would guess it is around the 50% mark. I had bought some remnents that were 60% and it was darker then what i had already. Can you shade the greenhouse enough to use it at all in the warmer months, or does it just retain too much heat? During the cooler months, it is alot easier to pull the heat out without the use of shadecloth. Mainly because the outside air is much cooler and does'nt have to exhaust as long. I usually take the shadecloth down during the winter months. during the summer months,even with shadecloth it will still be 100+ degrees inside with the exhaust fan running. It is pulling warm air inside(slightly cooler) then the inside air.there is not much you can do in it in the summer. According to the size and shape of my greenhouse i have the exhaust and vents sized right. In the winter months, I hope to set up a cold frame and grow some cold-season crops that overwinter well. I may not heat the greenhouse at all except once I start raising seedlings in it. I would try and go that route if at all posible. unless you have money to burn, i would'nt run the greenhouse when not needed.Not that i have money to burn.Usually the only time heat is needed is cold clowdy days and nighttime. When you said your greenhouse runs east to west, do you mean your 16' wall faces the east and the west or that the 48' wall faces the east and west? My 16' wall faces the east. that is why i said i leave the foilback insulation up. I dont loose enough sunlight on the north side to worry about. My greenhouse runs east-west, so the shorter 12' wall faces east and west and the 24' wall faces north and south. That is the way mine is set up also. I have limited flat land also, and water and electricty was another determining factor in why it had to be set up like that. I dont remember if i mentioned it or not, but i also ran a frost free water hydrant inside the GH. I dont have to worry about frozen water hoses. I also have an old kitchen sink on a stand inside also. It come in mighty handy when it is freezing outside and you need to rinse something off. One of those mud room/utility sinks would not take up much room, you might think about that. And for all of you thinking I am crazy to be mentioning a second greenhouse when the first one isn't even finished yet....don't blame me! Tim put the thought of a second greenhouse in my head by saying, several times, "the next greenhouse that we build, we'll......blah, blah, blah....". So, even though we aren't through building the first one yet, he's already thinking of what he might do either the same or differently the next time. How can a gardener's heart not rejoice when the non-gardening spouse is already planning a second greenhouse? I know 12x24 will look big while it is empty, once the plants start filling it up, you will want another and another.... I turned one of those portable carports(12'x21') into a Gh in town at my business to use as a holding GH.So i have a pretty good idea of the space you have available. I used some leftover GH film to cover it. If i can remember to take the camera(if i can find it)i will post some photos of how and why i did it the way it is.It really turned out nice. I wished i knew how to use a different color when answering back. Robert

chachasea-Sorry to be a pain, but do you know where to find pics of bluekitchenobsessed's kitchen? I did a search that wasn't helpful, and didn't see the name on the finished kitchen list. I was thinking creamy white island to keep thing light, but on the FK, I wasn't seeing ANY that mixed a lightish maple with a creamy white cabinet so I was worried there was a reason for that! rhome-thanks for the encouragement. I hope to post the hand drawn sketch I made for the KD but I can't get the scanner to work...thinking about just trying to take a picture of the paper! I would love for you guys to take a look.

What a beautiful place you have. I have a couple of suggestions. One; don't say small bedrooms, just say bedrooms. You have the sizes listed, people can judge for themselves. Really, only one of them seems small to me. Two; your pictures are in no order. You should regroup them. Start with the front of the house and the porch. Then show the inside rooms. Put all of the bedroom pictures together and all of the kitchen together. I didn't see a picture of the bathroom, can you put a picture of it? You don't need all the pictures you have. Next do the putside areas. Cut some of them, like the pictures of the dogs. Put all the barn and horse pictures together. Put all of the backyard/deck pictures togeather. Some of your pictures are too dark and many of them look cluttered. For example clear all the small stuff off your kitchen countertops before the picture is taken. You could get an estimate for converting the smallest bedroom into a bathroom. Even if you don't plan on doing it you could have it to show a buyer. I think a lot of people would perfer a 3 bedroom 2 bath house to a 4 bedroom 1 bath house. Good luck, I hope you get another buyer soon!

Maybe it is the way I have drawn it, but there is actually no issue with the door and cabinetry clearance as drawn. That said, I would still love swinging doors! And Cabinet guy said he will specify a super hard finish for the shelving paint. He buys the paint from a company here in GA who can duplicate the formula of any paint brand but it is formulated for the kind off sprayer booth he has and in different hides. It's as good or better than any factory finished paint I've ever seen. (Cabinet guy is an owner operator who took over his father's shop about eight years ago. He has one FT and one PT employee and they do one kitchen at a time, filling in waiting times with small projects like mine.) So I a, going to go with the painted finish and try not to let any future dings bother me. I guess that makes the darker paint a better option?