Building a stick frame house in the woods in 90 days

[pclausen]

Here is is with the actual rock we will be using. Keep in mind that neither the trim nor the hardy has been painted yet.

It obviously won't have that "pattern". I used this as the "tile":

 

[dave1949]

I like the lower wall much more. It is a bit "strong" looking now, but with a finished grade and plantings, I think it blend well and not be over-powering.

I would pick a rock color that foliage doesn't clash with, but not too muted. Don't ask me what that looks like :laughing:

 

[BuilderML]

Added some rock face. I know, not the right color or style, but you get the idea. Add some slate caps, and I agree this would look really good. The builder is going to kill me.

I know i would !!!!!:mur: Acutally if you tell the builder that you want to make the wall shorter and he just looks at you and smiles, can i tell you what he is really saying.:laughing:
It looks much better shorter.
Then one wonders why the bill keeps going up.:thumbsup:

Peter i think you might likethis cape cod tapered post and not the stone one. I think it looks better with the house.http://www.houzz.com/ideabooks/1834504/list/Renovation-Detail--The-Tapered-Craftsman-Column

 

[mkane09]

Yep.....definitely better lower. Uh, the wall, not the bill. I'm going to also add that to me the triangular space looks out of place, too. Remove that one section of siding, creating a rhomboid shape and I think it would look better yet. Remember, my opinion and $1 will still get you a large coffee at McDonalds.

This front end conversation brings up a real point to me. I cannot think abstractly, so I need to SEE something to tell if it is going to be what I like. If I were to build another house, there would probably be 100 things I would change on the fly, just because I can't visualize them before they are built. And yes, there goes the cost....

mkane09

 

[955Lincoln]

I don't like it on the front of the garage (too narrow), I don't like the right hand wall, I don't like it on the support to the overhang (too narrow). I do like everything to the left of the garage but lower yet so you could see over it while sitting down. Is there a busy highway or other houses within view of the front?

 

[Carl_NH]

I tend to agree with the triangle I think mkane refers - to complete the roof line. Then what are the garage doors going to look like - windows, arched, or none?

Carl

 

[dave1949]

I think the open triangle is going to be okay. It sort of begs for something ornamental to make it look not so much an open void. You'll know it when you see it.

Here, I know the phoebes would be all over the acute angle end for a nesting spot.

 

[pacerron]

Peter,
Much better with the lower wall.
Make a duplicate layer and pick a color for the brush that will be close to your final house color. Make the opacity about 50% for the first try. Then do a magnetic laso selection around the siding on your garage gable end. Use the paint bucket and fill the selection. Since the opacity is not 100% the image of the gable boards will show through the paint color you added.
Crop away the wood frame off your stone sample image and save as a new image.. Instead of pasting it on a layer use the "place" function. That will paste it with a diagonal X through the stone and the transform handles all around. You can drag, reduce, increase, distort the paste without doing damage to the pixels. If you just do a simple paste, when it is saved the stone starts from the last saved pixels instead of the original so you don't have enough pixels left to make a good change.
Lots of ways to do this stuff, but these are a couple easy ones.
If you get everything close to the final color what you are doing now will really show your mom what it will look like.
Ron

 

[aczlan]

Lower looks better to me. I also agree on the pillar matching the siding vs going up looking like rock, but that's just me.

Aaron Z

 

[pacerron]

I think the open triangle is going to be okay. It sort of begs for something ornamental to make it look not so much an open void. You'll know it when you see it.

Here, I know the phoebes would be all over the acute angle end for a nesting spot.

And they will repaint it with phoebe-poo on a daily basis from the nests they build in there.