Here are two new site map files with additional setback information and distance calculations. Main house has been slightly adjusted to conform to actual measurements. The drawing on the left is a small-scale, 8.5 x 11 rendering. The drawing on the right is 11×17 and contains additional info on adjacent properties. Click on the images [...]
UPDATE 1/16/08: Homes 123 is a casualty of the Sub-Prime mortgage debacle and has long since gone under. I’ll keep the post as a memento.
Spoke with Chuck Banta of Homes123 today. Good News! It looks like I may be able to wrap my design expenses into the loan. Here’s how it would work:
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The west side of the main house will require some landscaping. There’s little barrier between our house and the adjacent property. Below are two images - the first is how it exists as of today; the second is a rendering of one possible solution.
Building a new living space is such a great opportunity. After a year of living in our current home, we’ve come to some realizations about what works and what doesn’t.
Marguerite Feuersanger called this morning. She presented my preliminary design plan to the Thursday morning planning group. Here’s the feedback:
Building design didn’t present any big red flags. We can present the split-roof design, though there is no guarantee we won’t get a planner that requires a standard gable-roof design. She suggests that we apply [...]
Met with city planner Marguerite Feuersanger today to discuss my Land Use Review Application. At the suggestion from my designer, I took a preliminary proposal down to BDS to discuss the viability of my application. Here’s a copy of the proposal (PDF):
Preliminary Land Use Review Proposal
Patrick (Communitecture) met with BDS today to discuss the project and he feels like we’ll have a good case. Some positive news came out of this meeting including:
We don’t need a full set of drawings for our land use review. There was some concern that our application would lock us into a design and prohibit [...]
Here’s two site plans - one with the ADU at the back, and sidewalk down the west side of the current house, the other with the current layout of the property. Click on either image to download a PDF of the property
Here’s a great line of European woodstoves: RAIS
It looks like it’s available through local dealer Ecohause. According to the website, their stoves are so efficient that they are “carbon neutral” - meaning that burning the wood releases the same amount of CO2 as would be released by the tree as it decomposes. They’re highly efficeint [...]
A list of possible builders. I don’t think any of them have websites (surprise, surprise):
Referred by Chuck Banta of Homes123:
Banta Construction
Terry Banta
(503) 353-8245
Ostercraft Inc.
Gary Osterholm
(503) 772-0022
Fish Construction NW, Inc.
Justin Wood
(503) 292-9891
Referred by my client, Chuck Eichacker
Seth McCoy
Mighty Acorn LLC
CCB# 173367
(503) 351-2449
Referred by my friend Eli Spevak
ADU Building Company (referred by Eli’s colleague Bob Schroeder)
CCB# 118768
16055 [...]