Dated: March 4, 2013

H138g. The design changes from the previous version are:

H138g.1:

• Straightened out the north bedroom wall, readjusting everything else for this move.  It just felt too closed-in when looking out from the kitchen.
• John was clear about taking out the previous version’s shortening of the west windows (“I want them to wrap around the corner at the same height top and bottom!”). -- Done.
  - This breaks the “prescriptive” requirement for Oregon’s passive solar rebate
     - Total south facing window square  footage is only 41.2% of total.
     - I have to either forget about the rebate ($1500) or find another way to qualify it.
• John was totally adamant about the airlock doors sticking partially out in the last design (“It looks like a telephone booth!  Change it!”). -- Fixed.
  - Was able to salvage the inside view by moving the airlock southwards to be right up against the module 6’ wall.
  - In order to get by though, a sliding glass door is needed on the south airlock wall to lead into the planterbed area.
• After reviewing the new site location, driveway, house orientation and the lack of a dog run area, I straightened out the north retaining wall coming off of the north garage wall.  Since no neighbors are to the north, this works out just fine.
• The previous pictures of the kitchen seem to indicate it was too far back; it is between the master bedroom wall and the office wall.  What worked fine for the Grass Valley design, wide open both sides of the kitchen, did not work as well in this design.
  - Brought the kitchen back into the module, removing the bumpout for it (this does reduce cost).
  - In order to maintain the south view for the office, its west wall was moved out, inline with the studio wall.
  - The office now contains the clothes closet by necessity.
  - The buffet cabinet is also in the office, not the most ideal of locations but a spot is available for it there.
• Since the power is coming from a transformer pole in the south edge of the property, the power representative (Dan), John and Todd all agreed that the main input for the house would be the south side.  It was suggested that the boxes and such could go on the south retaining wall.  I moved the main breaker panel to where the main feed line will enter.

H138g.2:

• Jeff got back with the changes his engineer recommended. For both the southern west retaining wall and the south retaining wall; they needed to be 1 foot away from the cutout opening in the module wall. I opted to move the retaining walls away from the openings instead of narrowing the openings.