digitS'
Garden Master
I would love to have a new home.
I've been following @MontyJ 's & @dewdropsinwv 's remodeling. Wow!
My ideas relate to the thread I started on privacy. It amounts to starting with a structure that is essentially a single large room. The concept comes from those people who convert old buildings into apartments. But, old is what I'm trying to get away from ...
This home was built in 1901. It had a major remodel about 25 years later, I'd guess. Then another remodel/addition in the 1960's. The remodel/repairs I had done 4 years ago were minor but expensive!
What I would give for a new house ... the computer just went to sleep while I sat here dreaming ...
DW says she loves this house! The flooring should be replaced throughout. Then what? It will never be level. Between what was built in the 1920's & 1960's will never line up! It all drives me nutz!
A new home exterior could be as simple or complex as desired. It doesn't need to be a simple box but it need not be large. The need is to leave the interior open, with no or few feet of bearing wall.
This relates to privacy: central to the home is the bathroom. There might be two but it complicates. Okay, central bath with all (or nearly) utilities in those walls. The utility room is on one side of one of those walls. The kitchen is on one side, another.
The other two bathroom walls could have the closets for an entranceway and a bedroom. That central bath is a unit on all sides of its walls (even ceiling and floor).
Remodels at some future date is fairly simple but thorough for these areas that require the most frequent repairs and change - utility room, kitchen and bathroom. Take it all out, put all new in.
You can imagine how this works for someone converting a downtown loft into an apartment but it could work for any home. Central to life in that home would be that central bathroom. Would the residents be comfortable with it? Will I ever get DW outta this ramshackle old house?
Steve
I've been following @MontyJ 's & @dewdropsinwv 's remodeling. Wow!
My ideas relate to the thread I started on privacy. It amounts to starting with a structure that is essentially a single large room. The concept comes from those people who convert old buildings into apartments. But, old is what I'm trying to get away from ...
This home was built in 1901. It had a major remodel about 25 years later, I'd guess. Then another remodel/addition in the 1960's. The remodel/repairs I had done 4 years ago were minor but expensive!
What I would give for a new house ... the computer just went to sleep while I sat here dreaming ...
DW says she loves this house! The flooring should be replaced throughout. Then what? It will never be level. Between what was built in the 1920's & 1960's will never line up! It all drives me nutz!
A new home exterior could be as simple or complex as desired. It doesn't need to be a simple box but it need not be large. The need is to leave the interior open, with no or few feet of bearing wall.
This relates to privacy: central to the home is the bathroom. There might be two but it complicates. Okay, central bath with all (or nearly) utilities in those walls. The utility room is on one side of one of those walls. The kitchen is on one side, another.
The other two bathroom walls could have the closets for an entranceway and a bedroom. That central bath is a unit on all sides of its walls (even ceiling and floor).
Remodels at some future date is fairly simple but thorough for these areas that require the most frequent repairs and change - utility room, kitchen and bathroom. Take it all out, put all new in.
You can imagine how this works for someone converting a downtown loft into an apartment but it could work for any home. Central to life in that home would be that central bathroom. Would the residents be comfortable with it? Will I ever get DW outta this ramshackle old house?
Steve