We came a long way in terms of design ideas over the course of the years. When we first started looking for a lot in the 2004 timeframe, our plan was for a 2200+ sf house with cathedral ceiling, full 2nd floor and basement, in total having even more volume as the Williston house. This was based on a Timberframe plan book from the Garlinghouse company, mixed with some of our own ideas.
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| West Elevation of 2004 Design Idea |
The more recent design ideas came from the Dakota plan of Timberblock, a Canadian company building R30 designs with wood beams having a foam core, the looks almost like log homes. It was still using an open, cathedral ceiling living room, but the scale was much smaller, already below 2000sf. Still too big for Doris who was more aiming for 1600sf.
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| Timberblock Dakota Model |
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| Dakota 1st Floor |
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| Dakota 2nd Floor |
It all evolved from there. The first thing that everyone suggests when it comes to energy efficiency is to drop the cathedral ceiling. It was a hard decision, giving up on this grand living room design, but a 9' ceiling with big windows should still feel roomy enough.
So we scaled down to a 1 1/2 floor design (using ~60% of the footprint in the upper floor for a 2nd bed/bathroom, office and sauna). That was the state at the end of 2012. It turned out that there would be many more updates in the coming months.
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