Friday, November 4, 2016

A Roof

The barn side of our project has a roof! It's a galvanized silver metal--a little hard to see in this picture.


Here is the back side.


Rod!


And just some random pics of the farm and the beautiful sunset last night....


PEACH!




I've been thinking about flooring lately. I feel like flooring is a major thing. Even though we're not ready for it, there is a lot of coordinating of woods that needs to be decided.

In the beginning, I really liked this porcelain tile floor. It's the least expensive at $3.88/sq. ft. from Lowes. Since we will have heat in our floors, I think it's a really good option. I love that the "planks" are 8-inches
wide.

Style Selections Natural Timber Ash Wood Look Porcelain Floor and Wall Tile (Common: 8-in x 48-in; Actual: 7.72-in x 47.4-in)

Then Rod wanted me to find engineered hardwood, and I found the following:

BUCKINGHAM OAK - Room

This one is my favorite. Find it here.

Or this one:

BUCKINGHAM OAK - Room

Find it here

And this:

BUCKINGHAM OAK - Room

Find it here


This:

BUCKINGHAM OAK - Room

Find it here


No decision yet on that yet.

That's it for now. Thanks for following.


Friday, October 14, 2016

Finishing Up the Framing

Construction keeps inching away here. The framers just finished up for awhile. Now Rod will work on the insulation, siding, and roof. He gently mentioned that maybe being moved in by Christmas isn't going to happen, something I've been suspecting for a week or two. I'm ok with that piece of news now and I am still so very excited about how things are shaping up.


This is the front of the barn. The left side is the living quarters. The framers will come back in a few weeks to add the porch roof.


Front side again. Different angle. The start of some insulation.


More insulation and the realization that Rod is putting in some long days.


This is the view as you come out of this kids' bedrooms and look out onto their loft area. 


This is hard to see, but I was so excited about this so I wanted to try to show it. As the kids' bedrooms were being framed in, Rod noticed that above the areas right beside each of their bedrooms, there would be room to add lofts. The area is small, maybe only big enough for a twin mattress. The kids really like this about their rooms.



Speaking of kids, Max walked with me a little last night and saw first hand how excited the calves are to have us live there so they have a little more excitement in their lives.

That's all for now. Thanks for following along.

Friday, September 30, 2016

Trusses, An Upstairs and More Inspiration











Many people have been confused about the style of house we are envisioning. I won't be mad that they didn't read and only looked at the pictures. Again, the previous inspiration pictures that I posted were for our original floor plan that we scrapped. This barn with living quarters that we are actually building is so different. I love so many styles of design and loved that craftsman/mountain look for our original house design. However, for his project, a more modern/industrial barn is the look we are going for.

The siding is white steel with a board and batten design. Even though we want this to be our budget project, splurging on the board and batten steel siding was something we are willing to do.


That's all for now. Thanks for following.

Sunday, September 11, 2016

The First Six Weeks in Review

After One Week:
The ground is excavated and water lines are in the ground.

After Two Weeks:
Well....this interrupted our progress so there wasn't much happening.


After Three Weeks:
The perimeter was staked out. Forty, 4-foot deep and 18-inch in diameter piers were dug, filled with concrete, and perma-columns were inserted. In this picture, the concrete is already covered back up and basically all you see is the steel part of the columns.


After Four Weeks:
The forms were built in preparation for the concrete slab.



After Five Weeks:
Rod absolutely baked while he laid out a layer of silver insulation. On top of this is a heavy wire mesh. Zip tied to the mesh is hot-water heat tubing that runs 12-inches apart in our living quarters and 18-inches apart in the barn/shop.



After Six Weeks:
The concrete has been poured and the framing has started.



The living quarters are narrower than the barn/shop part so this gives us room for a wrap-around porch that can be seen framed in below.




So, this is where we are at after six weeks of work. At this point, our move in date is before  Christmas.


And here is the main level floor plan. We created it ourselves using floorplaner.com. 

I would be mortified if someone in the architectural or drafting world ever found out that we did it this way, but the bottom line is this--This barndominium has been our budget plan all along--end of that story.

Floorplanner.com is pretty easy to learn; however, if I didn't have Rod (who has built several houses) sitting right beside me telling me to add measurements to the center of the windows from an outside corner and various other technical construction lingo, then I wouldn't recommend it for actually building something. But it is super fun to play with if you like housing and design. That was a hint to Mrs. Robertson.

That's all for now. Thanks for following!

Monday, August 1, 2016

I Can't Believe This Is Happening!


We have spent 6 months planning our barn (not to mention the two-plus years to figure out that this is what we want to build) and today the building begins.




Sunday, January 31, 2016

Something Completely Different





If we were sold on the last house, we would be moving forward with the plans.

Since we had reservations, I casually threw an idea out to Rod.

We have always planned on adding another barn to our property after the house is built. Since we can't decide on the house, why don't we put up the barn first and live in it?

It didn't take more than a day and he was sold...and so was I.

So now we head in yet another direction.

Thanks for following and here are some inspiration pictures. You can find them here. And here  



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