looks fabulous man- GREAT work!!! if i were to add/comment on anything, i'd suggest some transition between your walls and ceilings- even a quarter round would help with an overall aesthetic... just an architect's suggestion...

-do you have any other plans for the exterior? maybe some stone around those porch columns-- you may have dealt with that already--that's last season's pic.

JJ

 

Yeah, I can vouch for those, I remember installing every single one of them. It was fun, though. I just want to finish the theater! Can't wait to play Need for Speed on 102" screen!

The photos don't do the iron art justice. In person, they're incredible. I've actually talked the misses into getting them for our railing over our living room. I, too, thought of my neices when the panels were installed, I actually rubbed all of the edges to see if I could cut myself on them, nope, pretty dull. House is looking good, bro.

 

Awesome!!

 

The artwork in the railings looks awesome, although I don't see how it passed code (?). It looks to me as if little kids could very easily fall through or become ensnared in the metal panels (?).

With the little ones you look to have roaming around your house, you might want to place some fine mesh screening on the backside of the panels -- at least until they are big enough to know better than to screw around with them.

( That would be age 6 for girls, and around age 20 for boys...... )

 

Looks nice.


REAL NICE.

 

Very nice! You have the same colors inside as I do. Cranberry accent wall and beige.

 

Very nice house and love the artwork. The wife loves it too but wants to know if you hired a maid.

 

Balog, a transition between the walls and ceilings would cause a problem in some areas. Unfortunately we hired a carpenter that we trusted a little too much and he did not make some of the walls level with the roof trusses, so we have some crowning in the sheetrock where it isn't level and creates arches. By putting in some molding, it would really bring it out. We did paint the ceilings a different color than all the walls, so it helps break it up some. As for the porch, we had it leveled out and have some 3/4" B-Chip underneath there now. It makes it look a lot cleaner. There is a landscaping break that sticks out about 12" from the posts into the lawn. We had the lawn area hydroseeded and fertilized just before freeze up, so it will lay dormant until spring. I can't wait to watch the grass grow in May, but that feeling will go away when I have to start mowing it.

JD, thanks for all your help on the house. Hopefully by the time I come homem the fireplace and bathroom tile will be done. He's supposed to start today on it. When does that decon job start? I'm ready for a little distruction!

Larry, no maid at this time, but we did hire somebody to come in and clean the entire place, including washing the walls before we moved in. The wife has a never ending battle cleaning, especially with the little ones turning stuff up like tornado's. A maid would be nice, but isn't in the budget right now.

 

Nice house! Must be expensive to keep that huge house warm.

 

Nah, it's not bad. I burn about the same amount of fuel as my grandmothers house which is 1/3 the size. This is one of the many reasons I built with concrete instead of lumber. We don't have natural gas, so we are using heating oil. Our worst month was last winter where we filled 315 gallons in 5&1/2 weeks. The guy that hooked up our heat and HVAC was expecting us to use well over 500 gallons a month.

 

very badass, if only i could have something that warm/inviting when i get older, and not to mention that big. Its really really something to be proud of bro!

 

So with the concrete floors, did you install some kind of radiant heat system?
I did a small elec radiant mat underneath the bathroom floor and it seems to be the warmest room in the house.

Absolute fabulous house, did you serve as the master contractor builder?

 

We went with radiant tubing throughout. Total of 33, 300 foot runs of 1/2 Pex Tubing (9900 feet) were installed by me and my brother (JD). We have 5 custom built manifolds throughout the house and 8 digital thermostats for controlling temperatures in certain areas of the house. We spaced the tubing pretty close together, but it was worth it. Nothing like walking on a warm floor in the morning.

My wife and I were the main contractors but we did hire out some of the work. JD did quite a bit of work for me, but I did the majority of the ARXX forms for the walls of the house on my own. We hired out siding, heating, plumbing and HVAC, as well as the drywall work. The savings we had building with concrete and doing a lot of the work ourselves was in the low to mid 6 figures.

 

WOW, Awsome. That radiant heating is the way to go it sounds like.