Secret 60x5 ft room discovered - what to do?
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Yikes. Just realized hallway only 3 ft wide--anything we can do?
Comments (37)The vestibule seemed to be jumping off the screen so I had to draw it. I'm glad it worked out. When I look at a design I automatically reach for a pen and tracing paper. People make fun of the fact that I always have a half dozen different colored felt tipped pens in my pocket and don't know how they got there. My former boss would hold his hand out palm up and I would put a pen in it. I recently left my pocket scale at a client's home and have been so miserable I ordered a half dozen of them. Sometimes it helps to draw the plan by hand with furniture, people, feature highlights and circulation arrows. Plan weaknesses will quickly become evident and solutions will sometimes seem to jump out at you when you are free of hard straight lines, dimensions and the burden of keeping what has already been drawn. It also helps to turn the sheet around and imagine walking through spaces from another direction. It doesn't have to be pretty; it's only for you. Few of these sketches are kept more than an hour and often I don't look at them when drawing the final on the computer; it's just an exercise. IMO unless you're using up a lot of tracing paper you're limited to reorganizing other people's ideas and those ideas can easily get out of proportion and not fit together as well as they originally did....See MoreWood flooring in 500 sq ft room on concrete subfloor? Help!
Comments (17)Engineered is real wood and if you look around, you can find unfinished engineered, so you can have it finished in place and not have the bevels if that is important to you. I didn't look at the videos provided so this might have been covered but here in Texas almost all houses are built with slabs at grade level and most of the new ones have wood on the ground floor.. There are several acceptable ways to do it: Plywood subfloor nailed to concrete and solid wood nailed to that (solid wood probably not as good in your case, these slabs all have vapor barriers under the slab, which you won't) or engineered glued to the plywood subfloor Engineered wood glued to slab (do a calcium chloride or other approved moisture test first) Vapor barrier and engineered wood floated over that. Many of the engineered woods allow floating installation, you have to glue the tongue and groove together. Different products are labeled for different types of installation, you have to be sure to check what they are labeled for. Find a reputable, knowledgeable NWFA installer, get them to do the moisture tests (the glue down a piece of plastic is not considered reliable) and then have them spell out your options. Now guess how I know all this? :-)...See MoreFamily Room Addition Quote - $292/sq ft???
Comments (11)"Am I missing something?" In a word, yes. You're missing the knowledge that inferring the cost of a remodeling project based on the cost of new construction is an approach that can and often does lead to large errors. Even estimating the cost of new construction based on the cost/SF of a very similar home can lead to errors if the building site is different or market conditions have changed or the owner changes what they consider to be insignificant things that have a higher than insignificant cost. One cost benchmark is cost data for remodeling projects in the "Cost Vs. Value" Report published each year by Remodeling Magazine. They provide national, regional, and local costs for a variety of remodeling projects along with an estimate of how much the project adds to a home's resale value. The most recent year their report included the cost of a Family Room Addition was 2017. The cost they reported for a 16' x 25' mid-range quality addition with vinyl siding over a crawl space in the north/east Ohio market was $92,075. Here's a link: https://www.remodeling.hw.net/cost-vs-value/2017/east-north-central/cleveland-oh/ Add three years of construction cost inflation at say, 5% and you're at $106,600 +/- then add $8K to $10K +/- for a full basement with slab vs. crawl space foundation and the effort of cutting through the existing foundation and you're at $114,600 to $116,600--not too far removed from the $118,000 estimate you received from your remodeler. I don't think you're lacking for bids. I think you're lacking calibration with respect to real world remodeling costs in your market area....See Morefound 100 year old cistern underneath house
Comments (19)I used to live in Amarillo when I was 5. we regularly had tornado drills at our school, which was basically the same as a bomb drill. the city even used an air raid siren, which was creepy AF. when a tornado actually did happen, we had to get up in the middle of the night and huddle in the hallway -- the safest place in our ranch house (totally not safe enough). I was so stressed out I pulled out a loose tooth that wasn't ready to go. I would have felt so much better if we had a 'fraidy hole! I was such a little kid and remember everything as clearly as it was yesterday. anyway.... almag, a wine cellar would be super cool there!...See More- 5 years ago
Hi guys.. so finally decided on the paint for the pod, and got some more material samples coming - will be collecting the paint this eve, and painting tomorrow...
Per one of the previous questions above, the neon ( second one i have fitted as the builders broke the first one!) is on a separate circuit so you can have the neon , if its a party , or the edison bulbs if its Tuesday afternoon!
the pod has been dry fitted for the marble table top, and i have added "ribbed" panels to the roof to add some depth and texture
there is storage hidden in the seating on the left, on the right is a huge sub speaker..
More pics tomorrow eve i hope :) 
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The pod is now Pink! just need to paint the bottoms of the seats to match the blue walls and figure out how to install the marble table - with just the one leg at the front for room for gangly legs to sit down...
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It's a Pepto Bismol pink and really works with the green, also works with too much drinking!
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So a little weekend of mirror tiling, table fitting and dressing the pink pod...
just wating on fabric to finish off.. we are getting close guys. - 5 years ago
few pics of the rest of the place...
Will take a few more when i have a min :) . - 5 years ago
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Random snap of my hall, so close to finishing my wall o'stuff.. no idea why but this was the first bit I started working on
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