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Emma and Pete

Two posts in one day, I’m spoiling you. Or not.

With the relative success of the first set of very rough plans I was in the right frame of mind to carry on and fix things up a bit. The good news is I put some doors in, so we can now get in and out – yay! The bad news is the house footprint has increased even further, so it’s now officially mahoosive.

Same sort of drill as earlier, let’s start with the ground floor (click for bigger):

Subtle changes, nothing huge. Truth is, I was fiddling with these boxes until nearly 4am, then crashed in a heap, and carried on this afternoon. I’ve pushed the porch out a little further, made Emma’s plant dungeon a more sensible size, and not much else (aside from doors, of course).

And now the first floor (click for bigger version):

Far more changes here. The kitchen moved, bedrooms moved, balcony added, lots of stuff changed. Again, not finished, still very definitely a work-in-progress, but crucially something I’m broadly happy with.

Have some pretty external renders. First up, aerial view from SSW-ish:

…and from NNE-ish:

Let’s take the roof off:

The landing cutout is something I rather like, and if it’s possible to achieve what I want without massive, expensive girders then I’m all in favour of it.

Next task: add some windows, more faffing around with boxes and – in the real world – look at non-PVC guttering. I’ve set myself a tall order of building a PVC-free house, and I don’t know attainable this is. Time will tell, no doubt.

As ever, your comments are welcome – bear in mind I know of ~30 small things that need to be done to the above diagrams, so don’t be disheartened if I answer ‘thanks, I know’ – that just means great minds think alike. Or something.

Posted in Cooper Acres by pete on Sat, Aug 28 2010

Last modified on Fri, Jan 7 2011