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.

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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.

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