Mobile Home Makeover

Got one more makeover of my 72x16 foot trailer. Like the other two, it has sun room with a
rocket stove mass thermal heater with a hot tub for the thermal mass. couple the passive solar gain from the sun room and the thermal mass heating system with a heat exchange pump coiled under the hot tub and there should be very little need for additional heat energy.

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Double pocket doors connect the large living room with the kitchen/entry enabling these two rooms to be one open area or two separate areas when cooking in the summer. A large closet in the living room and the guest bathroom may not be something you'd want, but I'm a pretty light sleeper and Grampa Tom is a morning person. Right now we have his closet in the TV room at  the other end of the house. That way he can get up and shuffle around without bothering me.

The  kitchen is gigantic because I love big kitchens! It has a triple sink washing dishes and processing  veggies, a professional range, a hand sink, a gigantic pantry and a breakfast bar.

Off the kitchen is a bump out that I have put over a basement storm shelter and storage room. If you want more bedrooms, there would be room for one or two down there. The bump out is connected to the master bedroom and the sun room and has a direct door going outside. 

I've been having a lot of fun with these. All of them could easily be built by a modular home builder and even be put over a full basement. I'm thinking about playing with some 12 and 14 foot wide mobile homes soon,   but I have some variations of the court yard home that I want to post next. 

What do you think? 

What would you change?

God Bless You All!

~Grama Sue

 There's lots of great pools and hot tubs on this site!

Smaller Gambrel Barn Home With Silo

One of the first plans that I posted was a gambrel roofed styled barn with a silo. Recently, I received a message about it, saying they loved it, but would like to see something smaller. I've been working on it. I've now got several floor plans of varying sizes. Hopefully, I'll post all of them soon.

This is the second smallest plan with 1596 square feet of living space on the first floor. Please excuse my square silo. My rinky-dink floor plan program doesn't do round walls. I'm really not sure if the 8 ft. diameter is big enough. I'd need the pro-version to figure that one out. It's just a guess. 

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The main entry of this plan opens into a spacious great room consisting of a living room space, a nice size kitchen and an over-sized pantry. This pantry could easily double as a storm room if it were reinforced. There is also an office that could be used as a bedroom if needed and a full bath on the opposite side of the hall. 

The mud room has a huge closet, lots of cabinet space, a double laundry sink and even access to the master bathroom walk-in locker style shower. That's Grampa Tom's idea. It's in a lot of my plans. He want's to come into the house, put his dirty clothes right into the washer and step into the shower. Then he can just go into the bedroom and put something clean on.

In addition to a walk-in locker style shower, the master bath has a Jacuzzi style tub and sinks on different walls that can be at different heights for him and her. It also has a large master bedroom with a huge closet that can be organized to eliminate the need for dressers.

I have several ideas for the second floor. Decided to limit it to 4 different versions for this post. There's at least 3 or 4 more I could come up with, but you might get bored!

The first is a simple loft over part of the first floor. With this option, the gambrel style roof would end at the master bedroom. A loafing shed style roof would cover the rest of the first floor. The first floor is open over the kitchen and living room with a blank of windows on the second floor level to flood the place with light. If situated with the main entry facing south, this could serve as a solarium providing passive solar heat during the cold months. 

This second floor option is also only over part of the first floor. It has 2 bedrooms, a full bath a large storage room and a loft area that is open to the kitchen and living room.

The third has a gambrel style roof over the entire second floor with a private porch area at the back of the house. 

The fourth option has 3 large bedrooms, a full bath in which the sink area is walled off from the toilet-bath area so lots of people can use it at the same time and a loft area on the second floor. If you have a really large family, you could go ahead and put a floor over the portion of the second floor that is open to the first floor and add  at least 2 or 3 more bedrooms. 

Like I said, lots of possibilities with this one :)

What do you like about this plan?

What would you change?

While I was posting this, I started thinking about an idea to create a barn style house that's even smaller. Maybe I'll even try to come up with a tiny house!

God Bless You All!

~Grama Sue