Week 3 – Knoxville “MUDern”
Well, week 3 brought one of the biggest winter storms in the past 30 years so there was not a lot of action on the lot. Still, some dirt got moved around, and hauled off, making it easier to see how the house is going to sit and how the driveway is going to work. […]
WEEK 2
The week 2 excavation brought some more bad weather with several rainy days and more sub-freezing temps. Amazingly, quite a bit of work got done. Unfortunately, when part of the driveway was carved out to get the big equipment in it was clear making a driveway “loop” around the large Oak trees was probably not […]
Week 1!!!
The FIRST WEEK OF CONSTRUCTION started with some HEAVY machinery being brought in for excavation. Of course, the first day it would SNOW! The final main level floor elevation is 83′. The final basement floor elevation is 73′. That meant some serious digging, especially in the basement area. Below are some pics from this weeks […]
Preparing For Permit
After the land had been cleared, we had the surveyor come back out and re-stake the lot to the new position, 20′ EAST and 10′ SOUTH. With my VERY CRUDE markups you can see where the garage wall is and “roughly” where the front door will be on the lot. With the new move the […]
Sconce Choices
There are approximately 23 sconces in the house plan which means we have been on a sconce hunt this week. This sconce I would have chosen for the McMansion goes modern home re-remodel but that is not the look we want to recreate in the Palamino house. This Sconce would match the floor lamp that we […]
The Lot
We purchased our lot in September of 2013. We had been looking for homes and lots for several years. There had been a couple of lots for sale in Concord Hills over the years but they were either prohibitively expensive, or were under EMF towers. I drove around the neighborhood looking for the hidden “for […]
The Revisions
The Site With EVERY plan, stock or custom, there will be revisions. Sometimes, the plan gets changed so much it is a completely different plan by the time you’re done. When we first stumbled across the “Palamino” plan by Master Architect Robert Nebolon we immediately fell in love with everything about it, but several factors […]
The Plan
While squirrels, woodpeckers, and carpenter ants were running me out of my all-cedar bachelor pad I started looking at stock plans online. I probably looked through THOUSANDS of plans, and started to get a bit jaded until I came across Alternative home plans. http://www.alternativehomeplans.com The design above is what sparked our desire to build. There […]
The Dream
It started with a simple peruse of house plans sites as I had countless times. I had sold my first “bachelor pad”, an 80’s contemporary, within a week. The plan was to build an awesome modern house on a mountain top with an incredible 360 degree view. A quick reality check set in that no […]
