Finally Bought Some Land

[j44ke]

I'm a skinny cyclist (and nowadays barely a cyclist.) I sometimes get a cramp putting a t-shirt on in the morning when I have to raise my arms higher than my shoulders. The poles will go unpolished I'm afraid.

[htwoopup]

Thanks! They are structural. <snip> a reference to a favorite building of ours and our architect’s, the Villa Savoye by Le Courbusier. They will eventually be painted bright white.<snip>

Also reminiscent of a dorm called Ferry House at the women's college in Poughkeepsie that I graduated from (The legendary class that first had a few men). It was designed by Marcel Breuer
and built, I believe, in 1950....

ferry house.jpg

[j44ke]

Interesting. I’ll have to look that one up.

The columns in our house are 3 different diameters depending on placement. And the ones inside the house are solid while the ones on the porch are hollow. Engineering.

OT my wife’s (and my) Pilates instructor was Marcel Breuer’s visiting nurse during the last years of Breuer’s life.

[Mabouya]

The columns in our house are 3 different diameters depending on placement. And the ones inside the house are solid while the ones on the porch are hollow. Engineering.

Here you go - you can calculate how they differ in their ability to withstand buckling:

[j44ke]

Speaking of calculations, we now have stairs.









We also have a lot of other things, but the stairs were a big deal.

[Mabouya]

Hmmmm.

I thought you guys were going to go with something more like this: ; )

[j44ke]

Well for a while there it seemed like we might have a fire pole and a rope ladder. So this is a definite improvement.

[htwoopup]

Hmmmm.

I thought you guys were going to go with something more like this: ; )

In my younger days, I had a rental apartment with a staircase to the loft that was similar although they were a little narrower and rectangular steps. They were glass with some kind of metal shiny edges around each of the steps.

I can not tell you how many times I slept on the chair in the downstairs room that the stairs base was in after coming home having been over-served at one of my favorite gin mills and somehow having a survival instinct kick in.

[72gmc]

^^^ I like that rail. Reminds me of Conwy Castle in Wales, with thick ropes hanging down the middle of the ancient spiral stair cases. My wife opted out.

[davids]

Weird stairways scare me.

I like Jorn's.

[Matthew Strongin]

Weird stairways scare me.

I like Jorn's.

Phew. So glad I'm not alone in that. Stairs just aren't really a thing where I grew up so they make me uncomfortable. Overshare? Maybe, but it feels good to come clean. I like Jorn's too, but they could use more railings. Maybe two per side.

[j44ke]

Weird stairways scare me.

I like Jorn's.

Phew. So glad I'm not alone in that. Stairs just aren't really a thing where I grew up so they make me uncomfortable. Overshare? Maybe, but it feels good to come clean. I like Jorn's too, but they could use more railings. Maybe two per side.

The first apartment my wife and I lived in together had a spiral staircase with a low ceiling going from the bedroom downstairs to the bathroom. So the basic pattern for the first month or so was wake up, head for the stairs, nearly brain myself striking my forehead on the low ceiling, slide down the spiral stairs on my back, recover, crawl to the bathroom, then wack my head again on the return trip, though more the crown of my head rather than the forehead. So yeah, no spiral stairs.

There will be clear sheets of 3/4"(?) thick plexiglass in each of the openings on the two railings. And there will be a grip rail. What you are seeing in the photos is just the frame. Code won't let us just use that.

[davids]

Thanks for the validation!

After we moved into this house, my wife spent months being scared she'd wake up and groggily stumble down the stairs. Which would have required stumbling to the bedroom door, sleepily opening the door, and finally flinging herself to the left.

Still, I understood.

[ides1056]

The first apartment my wife and I lived in together had a spiral staircase with a low ceiling going from the bedroom downstairs to the bathroom. So the basic pattern for the first month or so was wake up, head for the stairs, nearly brain myself striking my forehead on the low ceiling, slide down the spiral stairs on my back, recover, crawl to the bathroom, then wack my head again on the return trip, though more the crown of my head rather than the forehead. So yeah, no spiral stairs.

There will be clear sheets of 3/4"(?) thick plexiglass in each of the openings on the two railings. And there will be a grip rail. What you are seeing in the photos is just the frame. Code won't let us just use that.

I was wondering.

Eisenman's house #6 had a gap between the two beds in the master suite. The homeowner got up in the night and became lodged in it, requiring the fire department to extricate him. I think they used plexi to close this after.

[j44ke]

I was wondering.

Eisenman's house #6 had a gap between the two beds in the master suite. The homeowner got up in the night and became lodged in it, requiring the fire department to extricate him. I think they used plexi to close this after.

Yeah, that house just seems like 100% architect ego. Here is the solution:



I can't imagine paying all that money and then getting jammed in the slot between the two beds. But I understand how it would happen. It is that time you don't say no.

[SlowPokePete]

Jorn...with the construction delays (I think?) in the past, when do you think you will be able to move in?

Place is fantastic...

SPP

[Tom]

I can't imagine spending all that money and having two beds.

[j44ke]

Jorn...with the construction delays (I think?) in the past, when do you think you will be able to move in?

Place is fantastic...

SPP

Thanks Pete. We were just having that discussion. End of June is the target now, but I can't see getting in there until mid-July what with punch list and getting all the mechanicals up and running. Frustrating but nothing we can do about it at this point. Too many factors beyond anyone's control.

And landscaping feels like a forever project at this point. Have to go over in a few minutes and look at two very large and heavy rocks for the path and say which one I prefer. Endless. But glad to be consulted!

[davids]

Have to go over in a few minutes and look at two very large and heavy rocks for the path and say which one I prefer. Endless. But glad to be consulted!

That is my wife's idea of heaven.

Seriously!

[j44ke]

That is my wife's idea of heaven.

Seriously!

I like it too. I’ve learned to not say anything while others talk themselves out a bit, and then I make a direct statement that goes something like “I like that, let’s not do that, this is a better idea, so let’s combine those and the other section we’ll revisit once these are done. What’s next?”

It works.