Need help finding 30x40 ft +/- single story (Columbus, OH)
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cathyyg
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7 years agolast modified: 7 years agoEverything except for the foundation itself has been taken care of. I have added some more fill in the front since this Aug pic.
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Comments (66)Oh you poor darling! How do you control yourself? I would be a screaming banshee if i had done all that work to have it all dragged out to cook in the yard. You must be a saint or something! LOL :-)---Im glad you like the sock idea. I have two dogs and both get the sock method. My oldest is a three year old Shepard mix we adopted from a shelter, her name is Mary. She will practically bring the sock to me and she always wants to go first because they get many many goodies afterward. Bribes always work :-)----Then Tigger is our little black and white boy mini schnauzer and he used to eat us up when we first got him. He just turned one in may. He did not trust us at first and if we touched him or tried to hold him he would bite us! Thank God thats over with and he is our little Velcro dogie now. Always hanging on somebody wanting to be petted. He still gets upset about getting his nails clipped but he wants the treats soooooo bad, so he is much nicer and no biting anymore just growling but thank goodness for the sock. I use an old stretched out one that the elastic is soft so as not to hurt our babies just paralyze them. HaHa Then with Mary i drape a small blankie or towel over her legs so as not to kick my eyes out because i trim them on their backs. It takes about five minutes per dog and then we have a big treat party about three treats per dog and everybody gets a new rawhide chewy afterward to go take their anxiety out on. And i keep my skin and eyes intact :) The only problem i have with Tigger now is when we go out for a potty break he tries to catch baby birds and he bite a baby robin this year and killed it. I cried. I had no idea the little bird was even in there but he knew right away and just grabbed it and shook it. It was over in an instant. I put a muzzle on him now when we go out because i dont want that to happen again. Glad Daisy doesn't hurt them thats really good just gives them a slobber bath :-) Sorry i talked your head off, I better go---------bonnie...See MoreContest - Help me find the perfect 4 bedroom plan
Comments (39)I have to admit that while I'm great at reading floor plans, site plans confuse me a bit. I know that they matter, so I defer to others on this topic. I do understand the concept of having 12 acres, yet having only one good spot on which to build. I have 40 acres, yet I have one "obvious" spot where the house will be located. Oh, I COULD build in other locations, but it would be more costly (not adjacent to the existing gravel driveway, need to run utilities farther, etc.), but one general area is superior to the others in numerous ways. I don't want to disturb the roughly 50% that's heavily wooded, I don't want to move too close to the little pond in the woods that floods its banks, and I do want to maintain the open field that I rent out to a farmer (this gets me a drastically reduced tax build, and I'm fine with having a corn field behind my house). As for natural light, YES, it matters! Natural light is one of those basics I keep harping upon. Look at some photographs of rooms you like; natural light is most likely the key factor in why these rooms are appealing. To give an example from my current house (though the more examples I give from my sorry old house, the more I wonder why I live here at all), my kitchen /breakfast room /family room faces East. Although I have a covered porch off the back, I get the morning sun in those rooms, and during those morning hours these rooms are at their best. They are MUCH more inviting. The colors are warmer, the room even looks more spacious. By the time we get home from school/work, those prime hours are gone, and although the rooms aren't "dark", they also don't have much life. Colors, window choices, and other things can play into making the most of your natural light, but don't ignore this all-important topic....See MoreOH NO! Will my refridgerator open?
Comments (28)I would move the oven cabinet stack where the fridge is now, move the end cabinet where the oven is now, and move the fridge of your desire on the end run of cabinets. I don't care what kind of math you do, you will hate that fridge there next to that wall. Any fillers you need to make up the difference where the fridge is now should be eaten by your KD. He erred big time. Don't gloss over this because it will be something you hate. My side by side fridge opens both ways like a French door unit. It is at the end run of cabinets with a built-in "cabinet box" with a 4" spacerbuilt to the right and 3" to the left with cabinets above. The "cabinet box is about 36" deep, which protrudes much further out that the adjacent run of cabinets. Even with the spacers, I have to pull the fridge out into the middle of my walk-way to remove the shelves or drawers. It's a PITA. My parents were in a similar situation as your soon to be kitchen. The only solution that was feasible and cost effective was what I suggested to you. It's been that way in their home for 30 years. AND they are very happy with their kitchen layout. Here is a link that might be useful:...See MoreShould I remove 100 ft Norway Spruce that's about 15 ft from my house.
Comments (49)The pic added by huggorm is not helpful to this discussion. Nothing remotely like that need be done here-as he himself does explain. Again, do as you please, but the doomers and gloomers here are going way off the tracks IMO. A few judicious pruning cuts would have that up and off your house in no time. Nor would it look ungainly. Now one thing to keep in mind-I have two-and especially one-very large, old arborvitaes-I don't know what cultivar but they look more or less like species except stay greener in winter.....and the seedlings thereof, which I collect regularly, grow unbelievably fast for an arb. In any case, the one in question is at the midway point of the front of my house, right adjacent to our front porch, so in a sense, badly out of scale with the house. These are big plants. But here's the thing: I like the tree more than I like the house and it provides a very nice, cool microclimate in warm weather up on that porch, holds uncountable birds and other critters, etc. So I'm not just thinking design elements here. And all of the attributes I'm listing for this big old arb could also apply to your spruce. I think another fallacy in play here is that one must always, everywhere, raise a tree up equally all the way around. Yes, I would normally do so too, but in certain cases-and this is one of them-an unbalanced approach can get you where you need to be. So in this scenario, more raising up would be done on the house side. Trust me, it can work....See Morecathyyg
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5 years agolast modified: 5 years agoEnded up going with Unibilt Homes, model Lakeside(finally, 6 years after buying property). http://www.unibiltcustomhomes.com/Portals/0/Floorplans/RanchLakeside.pdf
Modified with many extra windows and an attic that can be converted to two bedrooms and a bath. Visited factory in Dayton, OH and was impressed, so far, so good. This house is done and will be dropped off in two halves shortly.
Will be similar to this (sides switched, attic/2nd floor added, no porch just steps)
cathyyg
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5 years agolast modified: 5 years agoHouse delivery was changed from yesterday to Monday bc of rain. The only thing different now than in this pic is that the perimeter has been filled with dirt. I decided to paint the top block layer. Dirt will come up to bottom of top layer. The black stuff is a tar/tar-like sealant. The entrance to the crawl space is shown.
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5 years agolast modified: 5 years agoHouse was delivered today. Half is in place and tomorrow they will put the 2nd half in its final resting spot, pop up the 2nd floor, and connect them with some type of pin system. With bigger houses they use a crane to put them in place but for this smaller house they slide them (hand cranked with a chain)on steel rails that extend out from the truck bed as seen in pics. First pic is front left corner, 2nd pic is front, and third pic is back.
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5 years agolast modified: 5 years agoThanks! This is what it looked like the day after last pics, and still does today. The roof was hinged in two spots on both sides (hinged mend plates) and they popped/angled it up. I didnt see them do this. Monday the guy coordinating everything meets with electric company and I will have to cut down some pine branches to get line of sight to house. Then natural gas line will need to be brought down the street a little and up to house. Tuff-R insulating panels will go on front and back(already on sides). There will be a window in the front and back of the second floor as well.
cathyyg
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5 years agolast modified: 5 years agoThanks Cathy and abbisgram! Here is a pic showing the roof being put up. You can see the two hinged locations on the roof. I didnt see this being done, someone else took this pic. Getting it up my 275’ tree lined driveway was not completely smooth sailing. They had to take down some trees and some of the lowest shingles on the right were damaged/had to be replaced. They also had to take out part of my fence nearest the house(see above pic). The guy in charge underestimated the amount of trees/branches I needed to cut (and fence I needed to remove). No big deal, just sayin. Overall extremely happy so far. For those interested, I believe the breakdown was about 133k for house (delivered) and 11k for foundation/prep work. Prep work was a bit more bc despite me adding a bunch of fill to footprint of house (leeches live in my “soil”, and I have a vernal pool (and spring peepers!) that lasts until aug/sept, last house was rotted at bottom, it was toooo low) they ran into the footer of the previous house. I also will need to pay about $32/foot to bring natural gas line down street and possibly up to house. Hoping this will be under 2k but could be more. Better to pay up front and save $$ long term.
cathyyg
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5 years agolast modified: 5 years agoThanks again Cathy! Lot is about 90’x950’ and planted out with conifers. This has been a long time in the making. I spent 2 years and a lot of time and money trying to fix the old house. Doing things like replacing walls one 2x4 at a time. I ended up tearing it down- me, myself, and a sledgehammer. I had it so the back of that house was held up by two 2x4s (one of which was two of them nailed together to make one, apparently they were running low on wood when they built it lol) and the front room by one. Ive also moved a lot of fill dirt (clay) by wheelbarrow or 5 gallon bucket. If anything is roaring at night at the Columbus Zoo(outdoor Africa exhibit), I hear it. May pics.
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