Jay builds a house

In which Jay builds a house with his own hands.

Monday, May 31, 2010

Mapping out the land

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I've been stuck on two problems. Later I'll write about the footing details, but right now I want to look at the mapping difficultie...

Habitat for Humanity

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I signed up with Habitat for Humanity , as a way to learn more about house building, on someone else's house . It seems like a good trad...
Thursday, April 15, 2010

Lemonade

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I worked on the "ferry" floor plan a lot, but couldn't ever get something I liked. It solved some of the problems in the ...
Wednesday, March 17, 2010

A point of reference

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We're comfortable in our current house, although a few small changes would make it much nicer. To give us a point of reference, I drew t...
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The "ferry" sketch

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I was riding on the ferry to Keystone and came up with an idea that led to this floorplan sketch. It has a lot of the same features as the...

Utility room

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Many of the house floorplans I play with include an unheated utility area. The interior walls of this area are insulated. My understanding i...
Monday, March 15, 2010

The growing house

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What if you don't want to build too big , but lots of small houses are too small? Another option is to build a small house that grows i...
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