H138f

Dated: March 4, 2013

H138f. The design changes from the previous version are:

H138f.1:

Straightened out the kitchen/MB bathroom bump-out. Both John and EST said that would be cheaper (less corners).
- Rearranged the bathroom layout, including the position of the door.
- Changed the shower to be non-square (better for a smaller bathroom).
- Changed the multiple wardrobes to one corner wardrobe (specially built), 5’ each side.
Put in a single 4’ main entrance door instead of the (2x) 3’ ones. This gives more room on that wall.
Adjusted for Oregon’s passive solar rebate requirements:
- All window areas within 30 degrees of due south to be at least 50% of total window area (heated space).
- West windows are now only 4’-10” high instead of a full 6’-10”.
- Master bedroom window (south) has been increased.
- South:West window area is 169.46sf:169.33sf (50.0% of total).
- All window areas within 30 degrees of due south to total to “7-9 percent” of house square footage (heated space).
- SouthWindow:floor area is 169.46sf:1945sf (8.7% of house floor area).
Adjusted the SW LM corner to have 6’ at the end, and 2’ on the other end (still a total of 8’).
- This allows room for a coat hook rack wall on the north side of the china cabinet
(my modification of John’s suggestion).
Changed the angle of the east retaining walls:
- North wall: 70 degrees from vertical instead of 20 (John’s suggestion).
- South wall: 45 degrees from vertical instead of 20 (my modification of John’s suggestion).
Rotated the entire house 10 more degrees clockwise to enhance the west/northwest mountain views.
Garage:
- Added a dog door access and stairs from/to the grated kennel area to outside.
- Equalized the overhangs on front and back (west/east) of the garage roof.

H138f.2 through H138f.6:

[H138f.2] Rearranged the garage to allow the possibility of two sides being earth bermed:
- Changed to 32' long, 24' deep (approximately the same square footage as before).
- Changed the roof to be a hip/gable style roof.
- Moved the kennel to NW corner, door going out North wall.
- Rearranged the other items appropriately.
- Removed the east clerestory windows, put four above the garage door.
- Laid out full VOBB retaining walls around the garage east and north sides and added a north side wing retaining wall.
- The open part of the north side contains only the kennel exits (dog and people doors).
[H138f.3] (Minor) Changed office windows height: 36" (lower).
Changed BR1 bath door to be 3'-0" (wider).
Garage:
- Added the pilasters required for a “basement”/retaining wall (east and north walls) and adjusted the inner walls.
- This changes the inside look of the east and north garage walls.
- (Minor) Changed to a set of 18" depth high back wall cabinets.
[H138f.4] Changed the main entry door to be an airlock style entrance (strongly recommended by Oregon’s Solar Space Heating webpage: http://oregon.gov/ENERGY/RENEW/Solar/Space.shtml).
- Reduced the door size to 3’ (from 4’), there are two doors now.
- Compromised on the airlock placement to be partially outside and partially inside the house:
- A fully outside structure is too much visually.
- A fully inside structure takes up too much room.
- Current placement sticks out 18” (just enough to be visually ok) and lines up with the inside planterbed walls.
- Moved the door south for 2.5’ in order to maximize the interior views of the outside.
- This does impair the western view from inside the house a small amount (compare new vs. old pictures).
Garage:
- Increased the garage door height to 7’-3”.
- Raised the clerestory windows above the garage door to make room for a 6” garage door header
[H138f.5] Slight change to the main entry door by pushing it out 6” more to a total of 24”. This corrects the problem where the end of the inside door swung into the coat rack.
[H138f.6] Needed to change the west windows from 4’-10” height to 4’-4” due to a correction for calculating the west window square area.