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HomesteadGuy

October 08, 2008, 03:30:08 AM
Hello Everyone!  Long time lurker first time poster.  I have had a blast checking out all of the different builds and have lost a lot of sleep thinking about what I want to build.  I look forward to asking some questions now that I am official and someday I might even get to build my own place.

n74tg

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October 08, 2008, 07:29:43 AM
Welcome to the forum; lots of good people here. 

Now, go get that pad and pencil, and start sketching.
My house building blog:

http://n74tg.blogspot.com/

OldDog

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October 08, 2008, 12:16:01 PM
 w*
If you live a totally useless day in a totally useless manner you have learned how to live

MountainDon

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October 08, 2008, 12:34:54 PM
 w*  We'll all be looking forward to your ideas/plans.
Just because something has been done and has not failed, doesn't mean it is good design.

SkagitDrifter

#4
October 08, 2008, 01:13:46 PM
Wecome HomesteadGuy-
Lots of great ideas and a bunch of good folks here.
Look forward to seeing your project.
Tom

Better to remain silent and be thought a fool than to speak out and remove all doubt.
Abraham Lincoln

glenn kangiser

#5
October 09, 2008, 12:15:01 AM
w* new dude. :)

Where do you hail from?
"Always work from the general to the specific." J. Raabe

Glenn's Underground Cabin  http://countryplans.com/smf/index.php?topic=151.0

Please put your area in your sig line so we can assist with location specific answers.

considerations

#6
October 09, 2008, 01:15:35 AM
Skagit river is in Washington, on the mainland, across from me.   Is that where you are?

Redoverfarm

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October 09, 2008, 07:29:16 AM
  w*     HomesteadGuy .  If you can't find it here then chances are that it doesn't exist.  ;D

ListerD

#8
October 13, 2008, 06:04:40 AM
Howdy!  ;D
"We shape our dwellings, and afterwards our dwellings shape us" -- Winston Churchill

Bishopknight

#9
October 15, 2008, 08:41:59 AM
Welcome!

What did you want to build?

HomesteadGuy

#10
October 16, 2008, 07:02:07 PM
Hey all thanks for all the kind welcomes.  I want to build a 20'x30' 1.5 story with a 15 upstairs in order to keep an open feel to the place.  I am used to living in a 2500 sq ft house and I have recently moved into a 1700 sq ft house but I am not into the larger places anymore so I am going the opposite route and going to go for the 900 or so sq ft building and build it as green as possible.  I want to use as many used items as possible and run the place off of solar or wind depending on where we end up in the next couple of years.  As for sketching out floor plans lets just say that I have done a few already :)  I am driving my wife nuts with it considering we can't do anything for another two years.  I have a bit of experience with construction in general as my father was a contractor for most of my life thus far and I have worked as a professional mechanic and a plumber/handyman for a while when I first went back to school.  I like to check out all of you projects so keep the pictures and info coming.  Oh and I am in the greater phoenix  area for now.  If anyone has a place out here let me know so I can check it out if your up to it.
Thanks all
James
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