As we design the raw house for the farm , one affair is for certain – we want a much smaller footprint than our current home ! It is one of the understanding we continue to eliminate jumble ( see : Our 365 de - cluttering program ) in anticipation of living is a minuscule space .
The brainchild for the design of our future house came from viewing this one online at strawbale.com .
I can ensure you our “ flyspeck Home”will not incisively be like the ones you see that sit on a trailer and take up 200 to 400 straight foot . But with a enceinte extended family and future grandchildren to host – ours is still quite small but functional . The net design puts the square footage at just under 1150 square invertebrate foot . But what the home deficiency in total square footage – is more than made up for with undetermined place and easy to the outdoors of the farm .
The inspiration for the design of our future house came from viewing this one online at strawbale.com.
Besides the obvious needs of a bathroom and bedroom – we have realized that we live the majority of our liveliness in just two way of our current house – our kinsfolk room and kitchen .
So the goal for the raw home is quite mere – make those two spaces entirely open and filled with everything we need – and obviate all of the wasted place . When you scale down the overall plan of a house , and work up what you really ask – it can save a lot of future headaches . Not only is additional space expensive to build – but more expensive to cool and heat up in the future . Even of more importance is that less distance = less time to maintain – and that means FREEDOM !
Freedom to travel , exemption to garden , and freedom to do all of things we want to do – and not be held intent by the quad , energy and expense of a tumid home .
We use our dining room about one day a year – so there is simply no need for one in the new home
Eliminating the Rooms We Don’t Need or Use
We use our dining room about one solar day a year – so there is but no need for one in the new family
The first thing we did when considering the fresh storey plan was to completely eliminate the rooms we do not ask or use in our current dwelling house . For us , that admit the living elbow room , dining way and a growing number of spare sleeping room as our Thomas Kyd start to leave for college and beyond . In our current house , the dining room and the living elbow room have basically become what amounts to an fresh show room – because we fulfill them with furniture and decor – only to wait at them and never need or apply them !
When anyone visit or comes to our house – we stay solely in our kitchen and mob room , or the screened in porch or back pack of cards – so that is mostly what the new house will dwell of !
The new house floor plan – you can click to enlarge
The Plan…
We based our house plan from an original straw - Basel home innovation that we find on - job and both fell in love with . Although our abode will be more traditionally built – we used the straw Basel plan as a starting point – and then qualify it to our needs and came up with a last flavor that we think will service us well .
The novel firm storey plan – you may click to magnify
The independent floor is one enceinte 30′ x 20′ open area – combining the kitchen and family room . Off of the back of each wing will be two small chamber spaces – one serving as the master with a walk in shower and bath – the other a elementary blank that can be used as a bedroom or government agency . There is a loft above the kitchen space that can easy be used as a plain bedroom and for storage space .
The large windows at the front of the house will take advantage of the farm views below
The firm will take advantage of raw igniter and the outdoors with large front window and big aspect of the farm – and a with child pack of cards to savor outside feeding and make a small space seem much larger . We will also utilize two banks of solar dialog box on each side roof that will hopefully power much of the house ’s electricity and hot water needs – as well as a rain collection system of rules that will water the entire landscape painting and upper gardens . That idea stem from the success of our inexpensive barn roof water aggregation organization we installed and use now to irrigate everything at the farm(See : our farm water collection organization )
Thinking of Later In Life…
It is our hope of course that the house we build at the farm will be our final home . So we are looking for the design to not only be utile and hard-nosed now – but that it can also serve us well as we develop older .
The large window at the front of the house will take vantage of the farm view below
The unexampled house is plan so that we could easy live entirely on the independent trading floor with no need for whole tone at any detail . All of the exterior entrances will have wide openings with no steps – and interior door will have with child openings with easy slide barn doorway . Sliding room access are also a huge savings on blank ! Both can will be build to admit wheelchairs – and even the shower will be built now as a unadulterated walkway in .
We are creating a wine-coloured and fruit cellar in the basement – which will be great for the immediate future to stash away all of our garden produce as well as hopefully our homemade vino – we will just have to count on the grandchild to bring us up a feeding bottle ( or of course canned commodity too 🙂 ) when we are a little one-time !
Hopefully proving that living small can still mean living great !
Happy Smaller Living ! Jim and Mary
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