Done for the day, arms and shoulders need recovery from overhead. Time for energy conservation and maybe a fresh draft porter.
Frits, thanks. Minimum overhang is 3 ft at non gable ends. Gable ends are either walkways or lanai, 6 ft in rear, 10 in front.
House is what I call the 4 boxes.
1 box - master suite which also has master bath, walk in closest, bedroom area, my office, and the pet rm/exercise area.
Main box is 1 large room with kitchen, dining area, living rm area.
Suite box is divided into 2 equal, mirror image suites with completes baths with roll in showers and mini kitchen area.
The garage box contains my shop at one end, bathroom, pantry, laundry at kitchen end.
Boxes are only connected by common floor and overlapping roofs.
Sophie and I designed the house while she was still recovering from her accident. 5 or 6th design and we didn’t even have land yet. Realtor was amazed when after the contract was accepted I pulled out drawing and told her this was what we would be building.
Not totally handicap designed (sinks and stove), but very handicap accessible.
Many here in GM also know that we actually built the house. Did hire out the concrete and initial solar and county did require licensed contractors for electrical and plumbing. Otherwise I just hired unskilled laborers. Unskilled because we built using non traditional materials and workers skilled in the materials weren’t available. Being all younger I told them they just had to keep up with me.
Just about time last slab was poured Sophie was diagnosed with endometrial cancer and construction started right after surgery. She barely missed a day even during radiation and chemo except for the in hospital radiation. What an inspiration.
Still very happy with the design and execution.
