Creating a Workshop & Home

[EddieWalker]

We had an inspector show up today. Yes, it's Sunday, but she wanted to see where her little girl was going to be living.

She also brought fried chicken, mashed potatoes, biscuts, peach cobler, sweet tea and chocolate chip cookies!! /forums/images/graemlins/smile.gif

 

[EddieWalker]

Steph finished staining the ceilings and beams in a Red Oak by Minwax. We're both very pleased with the result and will do it again in our future projects.

This is the family room.

Notice the nice Texas Star on the front door. /forums/images/graemlins/grin.gif

 

[EddieWalker]

Right off the family is the kitchen. The breakfast bar in between will be our only real eating area beside the sofa. No room for a table that we never use anyway.

 

[EddieWalker]

The stairs have all the storage I was able to provide in them. There's many days of work ahead just finishing them off with some of the ideas I have. Nothing simple going on there. /forums/images/graemlins/frown.gif But in the end, I'm hoping for something unique and satisfying.

The door was an afterthought. It leads to the workshop.

During the drawing of the plans, we weren't sure of the exact location of the stairs, and how much space there was going to be.

Another mistake was in the layout we had originally planed for the furniture. My Mom was visiting at the time when the framing was just getting started and suggested we put the big sreen TV on a different wall then the plan called for. DUH!!! It changed everything and really opened up the space.

 

[EddieWalker]

This is my home viewed from the inside of the workshop.

The wall will be covered in OSB on the bottom 4 ft, then sheetrock the rest of the way up.

 

[EddieWalker]

Here's the latest view of the outside bathrooms. I haven't trimed the doors yet and the porch area needs a ceiling. Otherwise, it's looking allot better!!

 

[Inspector507]

Looks great Eddie..........continue fulfilling that dream /forums/images/graemlins/grin.gif

 

[txdon]

</font><font color="blue" class="small">( ...an inspector show up today. )</font>

Eddie, did you pass... uh.. I mean did the building pass? /forums/images/graemlins/grin.gif

 

[jinman]

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Eddie, I was showing Kathy your progress and she asked me how many bedrooms you will have and where they are located? I know you have the master bedroom upstairs, but I'm not sure of the other(s). I guess I could go back through your posts, but with a dialup, I might be half the day looking for that info. /forums/images/graemlins/blush.gif Can you tell me how many bedrooms and if they are both upstairs?

Things are looking really good. I know you are scrambling to get done by September. It looks like you're gonna make it to at least the livable stage on time. /forums/images/graemlins/cool.gif

 

[EddieWalker]

Thanks for the kind words.

Stephs and her Mom have lunch together every Monday, so after that is when I find out what she thought of the place. Turns out that she called "her" Mom on the way home to tell her all about the place. She's very excited about it and thinks it's going to be a great place for her daughter and grandkids to live!!! /forums/images/graemlins/smile.gif /forums/images/graemlins/smile.gif /forums/images/graemlins/smile.gif

As to the floor plan, or layout. The bottom level has the family room, kitchen, master bedroom and a bathroom. We put the bathroom off the hall, so there's no bathroom in the master bedroom. Not enough space.

Upstairs are the kids two bedrooms and the other bathroom.

Total square footage for the home is 1,032. The public bathrooms add another 320 sq ft of heated and cooled space. The workshop and utility room are 784 sq ft for a total of 2,136 sq ft enclosed. There are two covered areas so far, with two more to come. One it 12 ft by 30 ft and is where I'm parking my CUT and storing outdoors stuff, the other is the long 4 ft by 48 foot porch in front of the bathrooms.

In order to squeeze as much into such a small living area, we don't have a dining room or even a place for a table to eat at. I build a long breakfast bar in the wal seperating the kitchen and dining room that will handle three easily, and four if you like each other. We always eat on the sofa anyway.

Storage is under the stairs. The bedrooms will have the beds tight against a corner wall to allow space to get around and every inch will just about be utilized.

Thanks for the questions,
Eddie