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5 Mar ’12
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My wife is pregnant and nesting and bringing up building massive additions to our house. All of these are very expensive and do not jive with our debt free lifestyle. Can you all throw out some ideas for a cheaper way to build an addition? E.g. real log cabin addition? Post and beam with cordwood in the middle? We live in the middle of a national forest so wood is around but I haven't seen much cedar.
Traditional stick building with insulation, drywall, etc. just adds up so much.
15 Feb ’12
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holy crap! congrats! How big do you want it? You have a floorplan of your current layout?
5 Mar ’12
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Thanks K.
This is our current layout -- I have other pics but this is the quickest I could come up with. 24x32 with an 8ft porch. She wants to build out the front porch and add on a 32x40 2 story addition to the right side of this picture. Seriously. Bottom story would be a new entrance way, 2 car garage, and work shop and the upstairs would have 2 large bedrooms and 2 full bathrooms.
I am not on board with this and have told her so. We can do smaller additions and cash flow them but this is over the top. I am trying to research other building methods because we can add a few rooms on to the right side of the picture with a single story addition on something like a perimeter wall foundation.
To do this large addition we would also need to move our well, possible change/expand our septic tank, etc. My head is spinning.
15 Feb ’12
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my first gut reaction is to enclose the front porch and build a deck off the front, it would the fastest cheapest way
15 Feb ’12
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done, hey you mind if I post this question on our facebook page? we have almost 1600 followers right now,might get some good ideas from it
3 Nov ’12
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Congrats to you and your wife. Good luck with the new addition (and the new addition)!
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