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Little House as an Office Addition Updated 12-15-09 Here are photographs and the story of a large deck built over a ravine to support and connect to a new home office. These photos came from CountryPlans and PlanHelp member Jeanne Howell I got an email the other day: "I finished my
office,
built using your somewhat modified Little House plans, in September. I
built it atop a deck that was in some ways the harder of the
two projects, extending as it does over a very steep ravine.
The sheer drop, plus lots of soft fill and hard to find
bedrock, made locating and installing the footings in the cold rain
last October - November dicey. I got the deck
supports in by the time we got that big snow last winter."
Getting footings in place for the office and the deck extension. Main house and existing deck is on the right. ![]() Getting in the posts and main support beams. Can you see the steep drop-off? Working in the dark
is fun!
Platform for office and deck extension almost complete. New railings on the
deck and the subfloor platform down for the office.
Side walls of the 12' x 14' modified Little House are up. The roof will be a low-slope shed. Lots of nice big winows let in the light. Insulated and ready for wall board. Here you can see the
finished project with the deep shed roof rafters supporting the
plexiglass covering for the deck. Now we have a functioning office! "It seems odd to some
that I did all the building myself, even while
chronically sick and hurting. I do many such odd things. My tiny bathroom. "Now my attention
needs to turn to using the new office for the business I built
it for.
Which involves finding ways to use my career skills (licensed clinical counselor and Presbyterian minister) online somehow, now that I'm homebound with severe chemical sensitivies, Chronic Fatigue Syndrome and Fibromyalgia." Comments from John Raabe: Thanks for sharing your fine project Jeanne. We all wish you the very best in your new office! |
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