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Building in NorthCal! "Updated with new pics 10/2"

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All that talk about building a tiny house and you chicken out and go for a normal house???

Am so heart broke
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I thought so too, for a second, and then realized that it takes a certain square footage to fit in 20-30 people for a shindig. Not to mention a hootenanny.

I think "normal" would be ~2400 ish... we're using almost every single square inch of the design, including the space underneath as a cellar.
 
ProfJohn said:
All that talk about building a tiny house and you chicken out and go for a normal house???

Am so heart broke 🙁
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Originally we were talking about putting up something tiny and cheap for us to live in for two years or so while we saved up to build something larger.

After running the numbers, we found that small wasn't going to equal cheap. We decided that with the cost involved, we might as well build something we can live in for 10+ years, which included space for guests to stay overnight (+1 bedroom) and a full kitchen and living room so we can have people over comfortably.

1400 sq ft just wound up making more sense for how we use the space. 🙂

And yeah, the living room windows face the valley, including the pond which is to the lower right. We'd have to take down some trees for it to actually be in the view, so that's tbd.
 
Very nice and exciting for you guys!!
We have been putting metal roof on my brother's new/old place for the last couple of days. Are you going for metal? It will drastically reduce your fire vulnerability and it did reduce our fire insurance rates.
 
skyking said:
Very nice and exciting for you guys!!
We have been putting metal roof on my brother's new/old place for the last couple of days. Are you going for metal? It will drastically reduce your fire vulnerability and it did reduce our fire insurance rates.
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Thanks!

No, the house is going to be done in Tuscan style so the roof will be tile, probably cement tile.
 
youre gonna build that house and move in and then call up the phone company to get your dsl line and theyre gonna say "sorry we dont service that area"
 
oldsmoboat said:
Stay away from Clear Lake. It's anything but clear.
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For serious. The algae in that water is stinky and disgusting. You're supposed to wash down your boat before putting it in Lake Mendocino to avoid cross contamination. So far we haven't had the algae transfer in, as far as I know.
 
youre gonna build that house and move in and then call up the phone company to get your dsl line and theyre gonna say "sorry we dont service that area"
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The Comcast pole that services the entire hill is actually on the parcel. Also, I can always build an omni or focused yagi from a neighbor (or heck, the telco, I have LoS) and terminate to a Mikrotik or similar, and build a decent scope net through L2 or 2.5 (BCP, proprietary EoIP, VPLS/MPLS, etc) approaches. <20 ms latency, usually 7/2 sustained with comcast link.

Believe me, I've thought this through.
 
AreaCode707 said:
Originally we were talking about putting up something tiny and cheap for us to live in for two years or so while we saved up to build something larger.

After running the numbers, we found that small wasn't going to equal cheap. We decided that with the cost involved, we might as well build something we can live in for 10+ years, which included space for guests to stay overnight (+1 bedroom) and a full kitchen and living room so we can have people over comfortably.

1400 sq ft just wound up making more sense for how we use the space. 🙂

And yeah, the living room windows face the valley, including the pond which is to the lower right. We'd have to take down some trees for it to actually be in the view, so that's tbd.
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I still like the small house idea.

Would love to built one as a mountain get away or on a lake etc etc.

Saw a neat one from Japan the other day. Basically one room open floor plan with a loft upstairs. It was a long rectangle. Very simple and easy to build and could probably be done cheap.

Of course by time you get all the site work done and such it might make more sense to build a bigger house as you are doing, but for the right location a mini house would be cool 🙂
 
I was perusing the website and saw some of your wedding pics. You are beautiful. Zenmervolt, you're a lucky guy. 😉

Back on topic, wonderful spot. 🙂
 
rasczak said:
I was perusing the website and saw some of your wedding pics. You are beautiful. Zenmervolt, you're a lucky guy. 😉

Back on topic, wonderful spot. 🙂
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ROFL! He is, his gf is a very smart and sweet lawyer in the making. 🙂 I'm married to linuxboy, but those wedding pics are of another friend altogether who ZV did the photography for. 🙂
 
Concrete footings were poured last week.
http://pics.zenmervolt.com/main.php/v/HC/Hindsight/Concrete+Footers/

Starting to look like there might be a house there someday.

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Looking good :thumbsup:

What's up with the 2x6 interior wall? Is that a support wall?

edit: Nevermind, I see that's a plumbing wall for the bath/kitchen 🙂
 
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