Saving Barney's Cabin: Too Jealous to Live

I’m sunk.

Here’s the hobbit house of my dreams.

What do you think it cost, including the architect fees? $400,000?

I am writhing in envy. I have to get a grip!!!

And what about this interior, huh?

Can you see me asking Ev to make curved rafters? There’s not enough Shipyard Ale on the planet to compensate the trauma it would cause.
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I took a deep breath and realized that even if I could put that back part on the Ivy Palace, it would take away all the charm of looking at it from the trail and from across the pond. With that sloping roof, you’d need big skylights, and then big picture windows to see out the back . . . and then where would the porch go? It’d have to turn into a patio or something. And with the kitchen planned for where it will be, I”d have to step down into the bathroom, as well as this new “living room.” Plus, with the lower bathroom level my septic tank would not be on a downhill slant anymore, and one thing I have learned during this process is Avoid The Pump at whatever cost.

However, note the hobbit chimney pot. Which I have! And the fieldstone chimney. Check! And the sloping hill—ditto, so those stone wall and path ideas are really useful. I was thinking of doing something like that anyway but this gives me a picture in my head.

AND there is no law that says I cannot make my second addition (the “wart” as Ev calls it, on a lower level—although I would probably have to make it more than 8 feet out, and that would look weird since these days it’s barely 7 feet across, O woe is me.

Next entry: I’ll show the proposed footprint and plan.

But today I wanted to report that we are back to having a complete rafter, and a plan of more rafters. I also was planting some Heptacodium, as who does not need a little heptacodium in their lives, and saw a bunch of drainage issues that will have to be taken care of, landscape-wise.