Is it an office? A guesthouse? A home for our new freezer? A greenhouse to winter-over some plants? A second bathroom? A project we started because we just felt like building something again?
All of the above! So, it's time for a progress report on the "clubhouse," our latest name for the new building—an 11x16' shed-roof structure with a small screen porch on the back.
We started out with the platform we'd built for a past, rejected new build. The main problem with that first attempt was that we put up the high wall on the tiny house side of the build. It was just too close to our deck to be that high. It only took us a couple years to flip the design, so that lowest wall faces the deck.
After extending and adding more posts to the existing platform, we added a deck for a screened porch (which also made building on a slope easier—a lesson learned when we built our house). We framed walls (24 inches on center), house-wrapped the plywood clad outer walls and scratched our heads a bit over siding as we put a roof on (plywood, Weather Watch and corrugated metal).
Would we go with shiplap like the current house? Board and batten like many of the old barns around here? Eventually we settled on T1-11 panels, a solution that gave us the rustic board-and-batten look we liked for less money and time. We sealed all the siding, trim and deck with coats of grey semi-transparent stain. To mix things up, we decided to take a cue from our main house, and use roofing metal for a botttom section of siding.
Next up: the screen porch. We went with the same design Bill had come up with for our freestanding "screen house": framing wood screen doors for the three, screened sides. Then up went the roof. Now, we still have a bit of porch trim to finish up and a gutter to install...and then we'll be ready to move inside.
All of the above! So, it's time for a progress report on the "clubhouse," our latest name for the new building—an 11x16' shed-roof structure with a small screen porch on the back.
We started out with the platform we'd built for a past, rejected new build. The main problem with that first attempt was that we put up the high wall on the tiny house side of the build. It was just too close to our deck to be that high. It only took us a couple years to flip the design, so that lowest wall faces the deck.
After extending and adding more posts to the existing platform, we added a deck for a screened porch (which also made building on a slope easier—a lesson learned when we built our house). We framed walls (24 inches on center), house-wrapped the plywood clad outer walls and scratched our heads a bit over siding as we put a roof on (plywood, Weather Watch and corrugated metal).
Would we go with shiplap like the current house? Board and batten like many of the old barns around here? Eventually we settled on T1-11 panels, a solution that gave us the rustic board-and-batten look we liked for less money and time. We sealed all the siding, trim and deck with coats of grey semi-transparent stain. To mix things up, we decided to take a cue from our main house, and use roofing metal for a botttom section of siding.
Next up: the screen porch. We went with the same design Bill had come up with for our freestanding "screen house": framing wood screen doors for the three, screened sides. Then up went the roof. Now, we still have a bit of porch trim to finish up and a gutter to install...and then we'll be ready to move inside.