In our last design meeting we decided to shorten the footprint of the house from 42′ to 36′ and to remove the half bath on the ground floor. This has caused us to rethink our floorplans a bit. I have been struggling with the kitchen and ground floor layout over the past few days. Below […]
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Possible New Layout for the Ground Floor
February 12th, 2008 — kitchen, size, design, planning
100K House Budget Review - Our Biggest Meeting to Date
February 7th, 2008 — floorplan, insulation, size, framing, budget, design, planning
Yesterday afternoon we had our much anticipated budget review with the entire team for the 100K House. Scott from Level 5 Construction had taken the past two weeks to come up with a comprehensive estimate based on the most recent design of both homes in the project.
I knew we were exceeding our $100K budget with […]
Inspirational Architecture - 3 - 215 sq ft cabin
December 4th, 2007 — inspiration, size, design
While some think 1,000 square feet is way too small, Cyril Brule (a French architect) is living in his 215 square foot Le Cabanon!
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Random Cost Reduction Ideas From a Day at Barnes & Nobles
November 27th, 2007 — inspiration, size, design, budget, planning
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- The best way to reduce cost/complexity/time is to eliminate common features or steps altogether (this is from my Industrial Engineering days).
- Walls & Doors - an open layout eliminates a lot of walls and doors
- Drywall - Do we really always need drywall? How about exposed concrete block, SIPs or ICFs?
- Open Shelves vs. Full Upper Cabinets
- Angle Stock vs. Square Stock
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Size of 100k house
November 9th, 2007 — size, design, planning
In 1970 the average home size in the US was 1,400 square feet. Today it’s over 2,300 square feet (source). The 100k house is currently planned to be 1,000 square feet. How did we arrive at this number? Good question.
Here are the conscious reasons I can remember:
It works nicely with our two budget goals of […]