It was a rather fine mist wasn't it, which is kinda strange for us. We tend to get more "Frog Stranglers", where it just comes down in buckets, rather than mists. But it was kind of deceiving, because even though the drops were real fine, it was still putting down a LOT of water per hour. On my way to work I kept on thinking I could run my wipers on intermittant, but I couldn't, and sometimes I even had to run them on high.
I've been on vacation (at home) yesterday and today, so that's why I've been kinda scarce. Yesterday I spent most of the day in front of the computer tweaking on my house plan. I finally got to the point where I thought I had it right and took it to a designer, but once I got the prints back I just didn't like it. It was a Country style house that was wanted to be a Craftsman style house and wasn't doing a real good job of either. So I was on the internet at 1 in the morning on Wednesday, combing through examples of Craftsman house plans and printing various ones that had details that I like and pretty much getting more familiar with the architecture of the style. I think I've finally got it in my head now and I'm going to try to get back to the designer with the modified plan this afternoon, so we'll see if I like it any better this go-around.
I'm also having a load of crusher-run gravel delivered this morning for the barn. My nephew was going to do it for me, but the gravel yard closes before he gets off work, and they're not open on weekends, and I just couldn't ask him to take off work just to bring me a load of gravel for my barn. This'll work out better for both of us because the truck that's coming today will haul 3 times more gravel than my nephew's truck. It's not the gravel that's expensive, it's the hauling!
Hey - share your house plans with us, we’d love to see them!
I’ve been scarce because I’ve been busy elsewhere, I guess... either dealing with the phone guy over my dead fax line, or dealing with kittens, or trying to convince my A-Rab horse that the plastic trash bags the neighbor had up on some poles across the pasture were not put there to kill him. It was really funny yesterday, because he wouldn’t go in the pasture at all, and he wouldn’t let the mares out there either till I walked him over there and showed him it was OK.
Then the neighbor ended up taking them down... she had no idea such a thing would be frightening to an old A-Rab horse. ;~)
It's a lovely look, especially the exterior and the detail work on the interior.
But be warned -- it is DARK inside!!!!! The narrow windows and substantial overhangs, plus the heavy use of dark wood panelling and darker paint colors, means that you will have very little interior light.
If you don't mind having a darkish sort of house, that's not a problem. But I'm a sun worshipper. Our first house was a passive solar house and I LOVED it -- you never turned a light on in the daytime. The house we're living in now has a lot of light on the SE side, but the master bedroom is on the NE corner and it's DARK in here! My husband loves it because he likes to sleep dark, but I most definitely don't (I loved waking up at night in our first house and watching the moon and the stars coast across the clerestory windows. He didn't.)
You might look at transitional Frank Lloyd Wright -- it's basically Craftsman with more glass. But be sure the roof doesn't leak!
Re- craftsman style - I like the cozy appearance from the outside, except for the way the porches go on - sort of like the house is hiding. And I like lots of light as well.
When we built our house up north of here, I did what you are doing with taking plans I liked (floor plans) and pictures of rooms with the details showing that I liked and the designer took it from there. It will turn out great! I'm excited for you.
The one thing we did was ask for high ceilings, and they are 10 feet, and the neat thing about that is the house is cool when we walk in, even though we keep the ac pretty much off when we're not there.