oh if a patio is an option, do it!Quote:
Originally Posted by happystuff
The back of our house in Hermann is on a hill, so there is no flat land to pave for patio. Steps will lead down into grassy area which is on a hill too.
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oh if a patio is an option, do it!Quote:
Originally Posted by happystuff
The back of our house in Hermann is on a hill, so there is no flat land to pave for patio. Steps will lead down into grassy area which is on a hill too.
I see from the picture that it definitely is a hill! My first thought was... who gets to mow that??? LOL.Quote:
Originally Posted by iris lilies
DH is skilled at mowing it, fortunately. And in our construction we are getting rid of “the little big hill” which is an extreme slope rewuieeing hand mowing. The rest of it he does with riding mower.Quote:
Originally Posted by happystuff
Interesting, the "getting rid of the little big hill". I will confess to having a hard time picturing it. Hope you are willing to post a picture when it's done.Quote:
Originally Posted by iris lilies
You can’t teach an old dog new tricks. :~)
Here, it is obvious that DH will be doing some/much of the finish carpentry in our Hermann house EVEN THOUGH I forbade it because that will take YEARS. See how much he respects my laying down of the law.
So, this is his compromise: free old dresser, built- in to attic bedroom walls. He considers that he is saving a ton of time by not building that box and dresser drawers. I agree I guess except that I just wish he wasn’t doing any of it. But I do have to laugh at him because he’s quite pleased with himself at the solution and I think I’m going to adopt it for the other attic bedroom which will be “mine. “
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He is also happily sourcing other old stuff for this house. He got a free old Timey sink, you know one of those circa 1940s porcelain sinks for free,it was an alley find. He’s going to set it up in the basement for “washing vegetables. “I think he is still planning on having a canning kitchen down there too.
I just watch his little beehive actions with amusement. He’s pretty much done everything he’s going to do on my condo at the moment so I am not jealous of his time used on the Hermann house.
Wow, that is such a cool idea--I am going to show it to my DH, because it looks incredibly handy and we have eaves walls.
It is easy to find old dressers free or nearly so.Quote:
Originally Posted by Tybee
I’m going to hold out for one of those pretty oak dresser with a serpentine front for my bedroom. In My ideal world I would like to have two of them. I’m willing to pay for them I don’t require that they be free although in a perfect world we would find ones with damaged tops that would otherwise go to the landfill.
By this I mean: we’re having professional landscaping done with fake stonework so that that area doesn’t have to be mowed.Quote:
Originally Posted by happystuff
Today I’m visiting Hermann after not being here for something like 6 or 7 weeks. I had to come and weed some iris beds because the weeds are pretty awful even though DH, bless his heart, has been doing a little bit of weeding for me.
What a gorgeous day it was today…mid 80s low humidity light breeze, just beautiful. I am Sitting here on the patio high on the hill and it’s not even like Missouri in mid July, it’s very pleasant. The church bells are ringing at Saint George’s, Someone is giving a bell concert.
I forgot how cute my country house and the little town is.
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Progress has been slow. Constant rains have setback the cement pouring foundation of the garage. But they were able to do that today. So now the garage will go up. Our electrician broke his ankle several weeks ago and so all interior work stopped because we’re to the point where wiring has to go in. But then my contractor’s main guy started putting in some of the wiring.
Herman sounds like a cool little town. That’s bad news about your husband’s hoarding space. If he dies before you hire someone to remove the junk.
I had a big surprise when I learned our garage will have a room under it. The room is greatly enforced with lots of studs so it’s really not much open space, but there is lots of room for DH to practice his hoarding. It’s a walk out from under the garage. We also added a walkout section under the sunroom. since the basement will be DH’s domain he has extended his space by a third.
latest progress:
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These are all upside down I know!
The first one shows the dark hole-room under the garage Which came as a surprise to me, I didn’t know we were going to have that. But whatever.
The second and third images show the back of the house which is starting to look very nice.
Looks like a wonderfully large spacious house with the large deck. It will be exciting to see the end result but fun to share in the progress
Under the garage sounds like a good tornado shelter.
IL, room for your husband to practice his hoarding made me laugh. :D
Me, too. Practicing hoarding....as if we don't know how! The house is progressing well. Thanks for sharing the progress.
Apparently I am on a “ limited need to know” basis about construction on our Hermann house.
My post from a couple days ago was about the underground storage area, under the garage. It has a whole bunch of studs in it and it’s not a big open room. Today I was granted information that the studs are temporary and they will be removed. Apparently we *DO* have a complete underground garage in addition to the garage on top. See, I know that DH talked to our architect about this more than a year ago and the architect said oh that’s really expensive, but I’ll look into it. Little did I know that it had become a reality.
DH worked with the cement guy and it really wasn’t all that expensive, according to DH, he says maybe $5000 -$7,000 Additional cost to the standard large garage.
Here’s the marvelous thing: DH can drive his giant ass farm tractor in there and put it away. I am thrilled about this because I didn’t want a big old farm tractor sitting around my acre property. 1 acre really isn’t all that big when you start piling crap on it like multiple storage sheds and a big farm tractor.
DH, the hoarder, says we can “get rid of both sheds.” This makes me extremely happy although I’m arguing to keep one of them at the moment but I could give it up later.
I wonder what other wonderful surprises are in store for me in the Hermann house construction? Always an adventure! Ha ha.
Sounds very efficient if everything can be put away as needed.
Don't you need a potting shed/studio/retreat?
Perhaps one of those sheds could be upgraded...
Yes. One of the sheds is cute and I want to store my flower show stuff in it. Either that, or I have to rent storage unit because I told DH the basement(s) are his domain.Quote:
Originally Posted by JaneV2.0
I'm learning you can never have too many sheds.
I am jealous of the underground tractor garage. My yard too often looks like the kids forgot to put their toys away at night.
We do tend to build garages for our large toys. We lived in our city house for 15 years before we built a garage. Then DH got his play car, his vintage Mercedes-Benz 450, and we had to build a house for it. I guess I shouldn’t be surprised that when he got this latest toy, a farm tractor, we would build a for it house as well.Quote:
Originally Posted by catherine
We had a break in weather and it’s cool now, so I went to Hermann to plant some iris and do some weeding. I was able to stay overnight in our Hermann house because with the windows open in a Cross breeze it was quite pleasant. Our incoming water situation has improved because now we can step out the back door to the deck and get running water from the outdoor hose. It’s almost like living in a real house. Ha ha.
I was anxious to see the garage which is now being built. The entire frame is up. Oy. The garage is gigantic, rather awful..:0! I did consider that during planning and just sort of thought well I guess I can live with it. And now I have to live with it.
Property now looks like a garage with a small house attached to it. The problem is that our house sits 4 feet down in the approach and I like that very much because it’s surrounded by lime stone walls, it’s cute. But man is it ever dwarfed by this giant-ass garage. It’s really too bad.
our street is curved, with houses from the 1950s, 1960s, and a few from the 1970s. It is pleasant, middle class housing. None of them have a giant ass garage like we have. People on the street probably hate us. Our architect lives across from us and when he redid his house and made it quite large, he kept a very small garage, a one car garage in front.
We are terrible people.
It’s making your husbands happy:)).
Indeed, DH is very happy with a big garage and a bunker of equal size under it.
I just feel so bad for the cute little cottage we had..R.I.P little house.
Is the garage actually bigger than the house? Congrats on running water!
it is not bigger square footage- wise, but visually it looks bigger from the front. It is the front of the house I like, it is cute. It WAS cute.Quote:
Originally Posted by happystuff
I am puzzled. Did the architects's drawings not give an image of the final appearance?
When you said "Property now looks like a garage with a small house attached to it.", it had me wondering.
Of course the architect’s plan showed it, but I ignored it. To move the garage around to look more like a house extension would still have resulted in a BIG extension. I will get used to it but I’m not used to it yet.Quote:
Originally Posted by razz
Next time I’m there I’ll take a picture of it so you can see what I mean.
So it looks like a farm. (big barn, little house)Quote:
Originally Posted by iris lilies
Don't remember what size property you are living on (acreage), but that to me seems like a bigger selling point in the future, for any guys that like to work. (I would love a bigger garage, with a smaller house)
You will appreciate it, when
all of your husbands, with all their stuff, doesn't appear to flood the house, polygamist. :laff:Quote:
Originally Posted by Teacher Terry
Oh yes, people in Hermann like their big trucks which is why we made the garage extra-deep.The practicalities are good, the aesthetics not so much.Quote:
Originally Posted by ToomuchStuff
I learned yesterday that we had an engineer sign off on The Bunker (the underground garage) which was…interesting. It was complex enough that our architect had to get engineering plans.
I guess at some point I will get to learn everything about what is going on with my own house and my own money in Hermann.
After hearing tales of woe from our next door neighbors who are building a new house in another neighborhood, I remain grateful for our Hermann contractor. We do not have a signed contract with him, he works for a while, gives us a bill, we pay it.
"The Bunker" - lol. Nice name for it.
Unable to decide on colors of kitchen cabinets, I ordered samples. They send you an entire door in one case, and in the other case they send color matched printed paper the size of a cabinet door. Same company.
I really didn’t want to pay for an entire cabinet door at $50 but the color I’m looking at is rather unusual and I wanted to make sure that I had a good sense of what it is. At the moment is my preference but I need to see it close up.
You're smart to get as much info as possible before investing.Quote:
Originally Posted by iris lilies
Signed,
The Paint Chip Queen
Obsessed with the Possibilities
PS. I'm down to just one room to figure out the colors for--my office. And I don't care as much about that.
IL, definitely wise to spend the $50 to make sure you love the colors. Cabinets are a big expense.
Here, exterior front is pretty much completed.Giant garage gets its door in 2022, supplies are backlogged.
Here you see new siding and new roof on everything.
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It is a pleasant but unremarkable little house. The cuteness factor comes in with the way it sits down 3 feet into a rock walled area.
It looks nice but if I ever move I want a level lot. With the remnants of hurricane Ida we got water in the basement this week and I can live without that charm.Quote:
Originally Posted by iris lilies
Iris, very cute.
It is cute. Love the colour of the siding. You will have fun landscaping the entryway.