"NKato" (NKato)
09/13/2018 at 20:11 • Filed to: None
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"NKato" (NKato)
09/13/2018 at 20:11 • Filed to: None | 3
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sketched this out between checking the mills.
Chariotoflove
> NKato
09/13/2018 at 20:18 |
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Take s me back. When the wife and I were in apartments and dreaming of building a house, I got her a graph pad and pencils. We would spend hours dreaming up floor plans.
FTTOHG Has Moved to https://opposite-lock.com
> NKato
09/13/2018 at 21:30 |
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I have a friend who built basically this. Despite his best intentions the entire garage and loft space eventually became filled with random junkyard Corvette parts for a C3 project that was never finished.
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NKato
> FTTOHG Has Moved to https://opposite-lock.com
09/13/2018 at 21:49 |
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I wouldn't be surprised if that happened to me. Which is fine!
Bman76 (hates WS6 hoods, is on his phone and has 4 burners now)
> NKato
09/13/2018 at 21:51 |
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You’ve got a lot of unnecessary circulation space there.
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FTTOHG Has Moved to https://opposite-lock.com
> NKato
09/13/2018 at 22:01 |
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He ended up moving out which is a lon g story that’s kind of sad but my favorite memory of that place was he had an old C10 sitting out front for years after it lost the garage space war that had a snake living in the air cleaner. One of those round ones with a pipe on the side. We popped the hood one night and it just slithered out of there and hissed at us. I’ve never slammed a hood so hard in my life.
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NKato
> NKato
09/13/2018 at 22:09 |
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I know. I'm trying to figure out the best way to optimise space usage without wasting the void around the stairs.
TheRealBicycleBuck
> NKato
09/14/2018 at 09:45 |
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The long hallway to the master bedroom is wasted space unless you intend to put a second door to the deck. I would move the office to the outer wall and put a short hallway between the office and the bathroom to access the master bedroom. T ha t should give you another 60 sqft or so on the master and a little more space in the office , depending on the hall width and length. If you flipped the door to the storage room back to the other wall, it would open into the office. If you ever had to sell the property, you could sell it as a three-bedroom instead of a two bedroom since the office would have external egress through a window and its own closet. Also, flip the door at the top of the stairs so it opens onto the loft. That will be safer than having a door that opens onto the landing.
Trying to edit pictures with a mouse absolute sucks....
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NKato
> TheRealBicycleBuck
09/14/2018 at 15:00 |
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A second door was one of my ideas, but then since the second floor isn’t meant to have any guests outside of the loft...it may not be necessary. I thought about putting that little short hallway in between the master bath and office instead.
Additionally, I prefer to have the doors open inward from the garage because home security. It is good practice to have a secured door between the garage door and your dwelling space. To have it swing outward is a mistake.
Plus, the garage is going to be unheated space, since I don’t plan on installing a lot of insulation there. It’s just basically an attached workshop with room for 3 cars and one frame lift. That’s why I’m designing it so that the living space will work with proper insulation.
As for selling the property, if I ever had a family and kids, the house wouldn’t be sold. Ever. That was my parents’ mistake when they got divorced — because the market went into overdrive not long after, crashed, then went into Plus Ultra Overdrive thanks to foreign money. As a result, none of us can afford to live in the region, and have been barely scraping by.
Instead, the house would be put into a trust, to be maintained for posterity and to serve as a place for future generations.
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TheRealBicycleBuck
> NKato
09/14/2018 at 17:34 |
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Home security? It’s much harder to kick a door in if it’s supported by a full jamb as an out-swinging door does. As for the hinges, a set screw in the hinge, only accessible when the door is opened, will keep the pins from being removed. An alternative method is to leave one of the screws out of the door side of the middle hinge, then leave the opposite jamb-side screw long and cut the head off. When the door is closed, the long screw will slide into the door side hinge, keeping the door from being removed even if all the pins are removed.
My mom left her property in a trust for me. What we didn’t anticipate is me never returning to that place. I might have held onto it long-term, but I had nobody there to watch over the property. Chances were good that someone would break in and trash the place if I left it empty. Rents are low enough there that having a property manager to rent it out was a losing proposition. Forever places are nice in theory but often don’t work out in practice.
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NKato
> TheRealBicycleBuck
09/14/2018 at 18:50 |
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I don’t disagree with the idea of a “Forever Place”, but it’s what my Uncle did. He bought a plot of land near Lake Coeur’dAlene, built the house and detached garages himself, and it’s been a wonderful place for the family. He put it in a trust so that it would be properly managed for his kids, and has set up a system of custody as well to ensure that it has a line of succession.
He didn’t leave anything to chance.
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TheRealBicycleBuck
> NKato
09/14/2018 at 20:23 |
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It couldn’t work for me. I’m an only child and it’s not likely I’ll ever move back. Good luck to you. Post pics when it’s done.
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NKato
> TheRealBicycleBuck
09/14/2018 at 20:56 |
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If oppo is still around in 30 years, sure.