Posted by Ecnerwal on February 23, 2010 at 06:09:09 from (71.123.87.30):
In Reply to: Farmhouse Huntin posted by Near Homeless on February 22, 2010 at 22:52:12:
And more fundamentally, make sure it has eaves and gables that stick out more than 6 inches. Modern houses are crap, and mostly designed & built by people who never intend to live in one.
Since you seem to know what you want, draw it up as well as you can - then you can make the choice (unless you live in a very strange location for a farmhouse) of just hiring a structural engineer to make sure it stands up, or involving an architect (most of whom will try to change everything you want so it's like all the houses you don't want). If you involve an architect, you may still want to have an engineer check it over unless the architect does - some of them are a bit weak on real life.
Two suggestions, take or leave as you will: Look into structural insulated panel (SIP) construction. If you have plenty of money and like post and beam, you can hang them on a post and beam frame, but you can also build the house out of them with no post and beam.
Think long and hard about sticking to one story. Stairs take a lot of space, and may become a hindrance as you age - height also slows down construction as staging becomes required, makes the roof more dangerous to work on, and makes leaving in the event of a fire more difficult.
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