This is the house that Meagan built

ell, to be clear, this is the house that we're all building, with my company being the contractor. It's an A-frame type cottage, which in my opinion is underappreciated concept these days. Maybe it's just my nostalgia, but it takes me back to 70's, when I was a kid and we used to go vacationing in A-frames, very popular design at the time. So, the idea is to bring the A-frame back to popular style of building. Why? Well, first of all it's an easy way to build, two walls and a roof, no need for fancy "bird's mouth" cuts and complicated rafters among other things. Secondly, it goes up quick due to it's simple design and fairly easy setup. For those of us living in the snow country, it completely eliminates a snow load problems, that you have with more classic designs. And on top of everything it looks cool, and after all, majority of styles come back in one form on another, with modern flavours and improvements. So, here's our first A-frame, hopefully one of many to come.Right now we're in the middle of the build, but I thought I'll get this log going and keep you updated on progress as it develops. This is a frugal build, so the speediness is not a major factor and pace is rather lax :)

Firstly, we had a ground scraped so that it's easier to build the foundation, according to some the rock looks like a sleeping whale, hmm:

Fun fact: under the layer of soil, we found bunch of very old medicine bottles from late 1800's and early 1900's, blue Milk of Magnesia, snake oil travelling salesman bottles, old whisky bottles among others, All in all, about 20 whole bottles, some still corked and many more broken ones.

Next, we built the foundation columns and then supporting beams on top of that:

Then we prebuilt the "triangles", which makes up the rafters as well as the joists (floor support), 11 in total:

Next the first triangles went up, and here we used help of our good friends and neighbours to get these stood up, the first one was a doozy, being the first and the heaviest of them all, experimenting was required:

After that it was a smooth sailing (no pun intended :))

And this is as far as we got so far, the skeleton is done, the roof has been sheathed as well as both main and loft floor. Next step will be the front and back walls, naturally with windows and doors. I'll keep you guys updated on this project, hopefully more step by step from this point on. First one to spot Meagan, gets a star from me :D

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otong316 (45) 6 years ago

Amazing, i saw this kind of house only on instagram. but now finally i know you one of them :)

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cosmiccrimes (45) 6 years ago

I can’t wait till the finished project! Simpler is better I like the design so far.

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