The entrance is on the North side, at the top. There will be a small mud room that leads into a hallway. There will be a closet on the left and an office space on the right. (Directions are reversed when looking at this picture.) The bathroom and the bed room are down the hallway to the left, and the kitchen and living room occupy the open space on the south side of the house.
One thing I love about the design is the large picture window on the south side that looks out onto the property. Mark has plans for a garden and a deck, which will make the view even more picturesque. I also really like the openness of the living room and kitchen areas. This will be good for heat circulation in the winter, when the masonry heater is going.
There have been several changes to the plan since this drawing was made. There will not be a window on the west side of the living room. That's where the masonry heater will go, and it is better to have some good solid insulated wall behind it. There will already be a significant thermal break because of the large picture window. Mark also decided that the sliding door that is drawn in the bedroom will just be a window, and that there will be another on the north wall.
Some decisions have yet to be made. I know Mark was thinking about using partial barriers and partitions for the office space. Perhaps a half wall, or a glass wall. That way it would not be entirely closed off from the rest of the house. There is a lot of time to think about that still.
Here are some of the elevations that I drew. Hopefully they convey a sense of what the house will eventually look like.
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| South Elevation |
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| West Elevation |
The roof is pitched pretty high. It will give Mark a lot of expansion space and the possibility of another finished room. Here is a cross section of the roof structure.
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