I'm thinking of designing my own house...
Or I'll use the one my dad made for me - it looks like this really big octagon gazeboo (sp?)  it is really cute. For some reason I just love houses with a large hallwall or a center room that conects to all the rooms. Dunno why... but I can't seem to find one like it.
He also designed a hobbit house!  It's like Bagend (I think that's how you spell it) or some other home out of the Shire. It's sooo cool... you need lots of metal and dirt though. And... grass seeds...  (and an assortment of other crud that is quite costly - but it's going to be borning listing it all off).
I think it would be so much fun to try making up plans for my future house - after all - it isn't going to be around for a while - so I have time to perfect it. 
Anyone else like drafting or interested in it? |
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| We didn't draft our home ourselves- but I DID spend HOURS looking through various plans until I found one I finally liked. Then I made a few changes myself- we really like it! I'm happy we're going this way, because I get to build a Victorian inspired home, which naturally, no one but custom home builders will do for you now!
It's a lot of fun to be able to pick out house and decorative details. But it is a lot of work too! I'm tired now... can I take a nap please.... Karen  |
| I remeber you talking about your house and all the plans you had for it. Did you ever post a picture of the plans for us to see? I would really love to look - especially if it is victorian-ish. |
| I haven't yet, but now that you've asked.... I'll see that I do when I get home this evening!
Karen |
| We're going to draft our home. This is the house we plan on having for the rest of our lives (yay...no more moves), so we want certain things for when we get to an older age (and I'm only 25...weird thinking about this, lol). I know one thing we're wanting is for the second story to just have a bedroom, large closet, and bathroom. We can use it for now, or when the time comes where we can't get up the stairs as often, we can use it as a guest room for when our boys come visit. We're just now starting to play around with some programs and figuring out what we want. |
| I hope I'm not budding in... just saw this thread and HAD to put my 3 cents in...
I designed the house I'm living in. I am in the building trade and have a supervisor's license. I feel the design is the most fun part as well as the hardest part. First there is the general design issues like plumbing on the second and third floors should be over each other. They don't have to but the cost goes up considerable if they need separate drains and vents. etc. Second there are structural issues like no wall here but there needs to be something here to hold the floor of the second floor up... etc.. Third the layout is the hardest. I must have changed my mind 10 times just before building, during, and now after I still say.."I should have done it this way" lol But I still have NO regrets for doing the design work myself... (maybe someday I'll change that wall I want to move!) It's like having a blank piece of paper and then drawing your dream house on it any way you want it to be (within land, size, budget constraints)!! I do think unless you are familiar with the building codes though you should have someone figure out the structural stuff if you are going to do the building part yourself. Just to be safe. If you are looking at using a builder, he should be able to do that. I would do it all over again if I wasn't the one doing the building too!!! Good Luck, TheGuru |
| Oh yes! I'll definitly have my dad check it out. He's been building houses for years - and if I didn't build my own house - I would be dragging him along with me to go house shopping.
I'm thinking of making a one story place (I hate stairs!) But I'm really tempted to use his design for the gazebo house... it's like an octagone - with a middle room and all the corners are rooms - bedrooms - bathrooms and kitchen. It's a bit odd - but I love the openess of it. I absolutely abore houses that are nothing but a bunch of walls. Some are nessasary for the structure of the home - but sometimes they get pretty irritating if there is one every few feet like in our house.... grrr... I'm always running into something. |
| I hate walls too. I took out two 16' long major support walls on the first floor and replaced with 2 - 700 pound, w8-31 steel I beams that I pushed up into the ceiling so you can't tell. What a job!!
I have a friend that built (not sure on the spelling) geodesic house out of concrete. It is 4 25' x 25' domes that are 20' tall put together in the shape of an 'L'. Then he buried the whole thing except the inside of the L with dirt and planted grass on top. Now he has to mow his roof!! From the street all you see is a grass mound and would never know someone lives there except for the mailbox. Inside is wide open and each section 9(dome) is a different room with the bedroom on the single dome of the 'L'. Real cool house. |
TheGuru wrote: Then he buried the whole thing except the inside of the L with dirt and planted grass on top. Now he has to mow his roof!! From the street all you see is a grass mound and would never know someone lives there except for the mailbox.
How funny! He probably likes mowing his roof a lot more than he likes replacing shingles?
I think it would be so much fun to have something like that made - lots of work but wow - very cool. My dad was thinking of making his hobbit house by welding two of those trailers (the ones that the mack's tug around?) together. He wants to dig a bit to get it into the ground - then dump dirt on top of it. I think there will be two doors out and a window or two visible. I'm trying to figure out how he is going to do it without having to worry about the rain taking the dirt away - maybe the grass will hold most of it down - but I'm not sure how deep in the ground it's going to be... maybe he is going to make a walkway... hrrmmmm... I haven't seen his plans for it yet though... O_o It's hurting my brain trying to think of how he wants to do it. I definitly wish he would have taught me more about what he does - I know very basic stuff - but nothing like him.  |
| I was in a house with a layout as you described, very interesting. Sure eliminates the need for narrow hallways.....ideal for handicapped.
Now our honey suppliers live in a house laid out like, you guessed it, a honey comb. The main problem was how to roof it, we all suggested a wax capping each room, but alas, not good for hot climates. |
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