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To: TH who wrote (12323)	3/17/2011 12:16:37 AM
From: neolib	1 Recommendation Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 119360

... high quality materials... I'm looking at building a 900-1250 square foot masterpiece... Be careful what you wish for. I have a building permit on my own designed masterpiece which is 15 years in the process! LOL! I've been sidetracked several times, including building a 2500sqft "temp" house which I live in, investing in rentals that I remodel, etc. Being an engineer, its the materials and structure which fascinates me, but now I kind of wish I'd used an architect at least for some of the exterior esthetics. Thats the one thing I suggest you consider. Or be confident in your artistic eye. I don't think I have one, but I didn't realise that to start with! My design is concrete 1'st floor (exterior walls) and timberframe interior and 2'nd story. Timberframe is very heavy and exotic (greenheart & azobe from eco sources) and locally black locust, osage orange, black walnut & recycled beams from grain elevators (doug fir). I actually have black locust beams from trees which I planted after getting the permit! The problem is that if you draw these things out long enough, you kind of lose interest in them. Now I'm more interested in growing trees than in using them, but I had neither interest prior to deciding I wanted to design and build my own dream house.