The Design
I have been so incredibly busy building the house that I haven't had time to upload hardly any images....plus the internet in Bluff is pretty unreliable. So here are drawings of the design. These drawings were done back in January, but they change on a daily basis. Because we are actually building on county land that is owned by the Navajo Nation....which is different than Big Nation we must follow county codes. This puts a lot more pressure on us as we have to research everything before we change anything and we must add an addendum to the drawing set.
So the basic design is two modules that are side by side, but they are shifted horizontally and vertically. They are connected by a main wall in the center that houses the plumbing and mechanical systems. Both modules are off the ground. The center wall allows us to bring the plumbing down to the ground. The lower module is the living area with a kitchen, living, and dining room. The upper module contains two bedrooms, and 1.5 baths. The half bath was added by me about a week ago as I couldn't imagine 6 people using the same bathroom. I space planned and came up with the layout that didn't really take much space away from the girl's bedroom. Under the upper module will be a carport area.
As of right now the cladding will consist of commercial shelves painted white and rusted metal screens used to sift concrete that will sit against cedar strips creating a rainscreen...the rain will run off the house onto the metal grate. We expect it will cost $500 to put on all the cladding. Our budget is $24,000 and we have been pretty careful to stay within that.
The column detail above is what we sent to the engineer and we hired local welders to weld these custom pieces together for us. The columns should be installed next session. We detail out every piece of the project.
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