I hardly need to convince you people that a lot of collaboration can be done well over the internet.
How's that song coming?
That's awesome, heebie. Please post pictures in the flickr pool.
Do you have a basement? Pittsburgh know-how can do great things with a solitary toilet in the basement.
Is it true that the front door unlocks when you say "Who wants to sex Mutumbo?"?
And so great to know that all the time he spent here wasn't entirely a waste in terms of providing for his family.
2: I will indeed! There are some pictures showing the framing and general shape of things here. But there are a lot of more recent photos I can get up.
I'm fairly certain that a growing family needs bad puns.
And so great to know that all the time he spent here wasn't entirely a waste in terms of providing for his family.
This is the takeaway for all commenters everywhere. You're being selfless, truly.
It violates the spirit of Unfogged to be useful. JRoth is banned!
6: Why doesn't your house go all the way down to the ground?
JRoth is banned!
Just like an analogy.
Why doesn't your house go all the way down to the ground?
Because we're up and over a floodplain.
That's why I have my pants rolled at the cuff, but people just mock me for it.
I am disappointed. I was hoping for earth-friendly sod.
JRoth already absented himself for the most part.
I can't only ban those who do not ban themselves. It's like ... something.
I've absented myself from all but a vanishingly small proportion of places even if you only count the number of places from which I could unabsented myself without violating the laws of physics.
Hello, everybody.
Thanks for the nice writeup, H-G. It was a pretty great process, and I'm extremely proud of the outcome. It's also completely useful for me to have my best-ever project be located a thousand miles from where all my potential customers live.
20: If I win the lottery, I'm going to build a bike trail/golf cart part through Squirrel Hill and Oakland.
You could be a niche architect whose niche is central Texas. You could spend your whole career taking weekend trips to Texas in August.
Oh, this is very good to know. The thought that I could use the help of someone like JRoth on my disasterpiece of a house has crossed my mind more than once -- but I just assumed the geography would be prohibitive. I'm way closer than Texas, though! Mr. JRoth, you will be hearing from me.
Being this happy with your architect at this particular stage of a project is pretty goddamn unusual (right before the end ofmy big project is when I was thinking about hiring the mob to intimidate my contractor, and I'm friends with the guy and now like the results). So that alone should be sufficient for anyone to hire JRoth.
We're also happy with our contractor. And JRoth will help you pick your contractor and generally hold your hand through the whole process.
23: Knox alums and offspring of same unite!
Excellent! Now which commenter wants to clear out our overgrown creek and the now nearly impenetrable natural area that's steadily eating our shed?
28: I should see if my brother knows anyone...
28: If you give me a plane ticket, a flame thrower, and a half dozen M-80s, I might take care of it.
If I'm reading the linked post right, the ultimate plan is a 1900 sq foot home for a family of six through teenagerdom. Definitely small by UMC American, and particularly Texan, standards, so clearly not a case where just getting a cookie cutter extra room frima contractor would have worked well and yay architects doing cool things with less space.
And two six packs of Miller Light and a fifth of Jack.
Yeah, you're reading it right. It's not a very big lot, and also I was worried about this house looking even more conspicuously wealthy in this neighborhood than it already does.
That's great -- fewer, but fewer better, is a good rule for house size. My own place doesn't live up to that at all due to a lot of weird early 20th C design issues -- I have tons of largely unusable space.
Couldn't you just buy some unusually shaped shelves?
Some nice built-in, flush cabinets can serve to hold a surprisingly large number of children and still leave your home looking sleek and modern.
Just mount coffins to your walls.
40: If the coffin isn't below ground, it has to be clearly labeled as not a safe place for a vampire to spend the night.
Getting permits for that kind of thing is exactly why you need a competent architect.
With enough spray-on insulation you can turn even the most cavernous home into a cozy hobbit-hole.
Good luck trying to find a round door at the Home Depot.
When I think "round door" I don't think "cozy".
Hobbit holes have round doors. It's cannon, you failed nerds.
If the coffin isn't below ground, it has to be clearly labeled as not a safe place for a vampire to spend the night.
Vampires would have a tough time of it in New Orleans.
Hobbit holes have round doors. It's cannon, you failed nerds.
It is dangerous to confuse hobbit holes with cannons just because they both have round openings.
Also confusable: asses and holes in the ground.
There was a house in Dunmore that I sometimes cycled past as a kid which I was convinced was a hobbit house:
48: to be fair, 46 does portray a hobbit.
Bilbo eventually decided to give away Smaug's gold, but his first reaction on reclaiming Bag End was to increase security.
Also confusable: asses and holes in the ground.
Ah, you're thinking of Tolkien's infamous first rejected draft.
The house in 52 looked a lot more rundown and Hobbit in the late 70s [you'll have to take my word for that].
55: There and Back and There and Back and There and Back Again.
57: Is that the Spotted or Herbaceous Backagin?
Resolved: That JRoth is like Howard Roark, architect-hero of The Fountainhead.
Does the resolution carry? [Alternatively: On how many different levels is this banned/deprecated?]
JRoth is like Howard Roark, architect-hero of The Fountainhead.
Except, you know, less rapey.
Also probably less prone to bombings.
And much less likely to be played by Gary Cooper.
Is this an example of literary bluffing?
Nah. For it to be literary bluffing, we'd have to be talking about literature.
I really enjoyed the car chase in And Quiet Flows the Don.
Bilbo eventually decided to give away Smaug's gold, but his first reaction on reclaiming Bag End was to increase security.
What a strange governor.
I would get played by a young gary cooper any time. look at pictures from when he was a young man, he was the nuclear hotness. godDAMN he was fine.
That's an unexpected casting choice.
I would get played by a young gary cooper any time. look at pictures from when he was a young man, he was the nuclear hotness. godDAMN he was fine.
So true.
I would get played by a young gary cooper any time.
You spelled "laid" wrong.
I remember watching a Gary Cooper movie from the early 40s when my grandmother walked by and said: "Gary Cooper! He was a big deal when I was your age." She would have been in her early 30s when that movie came out. At the time, I was 19. And then I found five dollars, which was real money back then.
73: I didn't get it until it was made explicit.
Also probably less prone to bombings.
But the ever-present threat is invaluable in design meetings.
I'm excited that heebie is house-blogging here.
We moved into the Piano House a week ago, and while it's a 6-bedroom with 2700 square feet, no one is living on the third floor without air conditioning except the poor cats, who will be let out once the painters are finished and appliances are delivered tomorrow. I don't think I'm aiming for style as much as others here might be, but I like reading what others think about design.
Oh, and since Halford was interested in all the things within walking distance, I have to admit that we did not make it to the (sweartogawd) Sausage Fest this weekend. We do plan to attend the weekly $10 pizza night at our local parlor tonight, though.
I have to admit that we did not make it to the (sweartogawd) Sausage Fest this weekend. . We do plan to attend the weekly $10 pizza night at our local parlor tonight, though.
No! Sausage>Pizza! The fortunate know not what they have. At least do a stroll over to the Hooters for me.
Now which commenter wants to clear out our overgrown creek and the now nearly impenetrable natural area that's steadily eating our shed?
Borrow some goats?
76: Farber?
I DON'T HARDLY EVEN KNOW HER, SIR.
we just finished part of our basement but we didn't hire jroth so it wasn't done correctly and now the floor goes up and down with a crinkly sound when you walk on it and the concrete is still buckled (it already was) and we don't have a door but it's still nice to have some additional space even though it's only one medium-sized room although we can't fit a couch down there because the doorway is too small which is a problem since it was supposed to be where the tv would go but the tv isn't working anyway.
Reportedly Twitland was ablaze with attempts to find the female equivalent of a "sausage-fest." The winner: "clam-bake."
Eew, not as good at all! Makes it sound like the female parts are being cooked rather than celebrated.
I should confess that this event was actually called the "Sausage Festival" and was adjacent to Hooters, so I could have killed many Halfordesque birds with one stone if I hadn't been too damned busy and tired to walk down to the river. Still, I knew what they really meant. Plus, it's only been a few weeks since the last sausage-themed festival in the same location. That's weirdly sausagey, right?
85: Unless you have no fear of trichinosis, sausage-fest shares that same problem.
Do the rules of this contest require that entries be food-related? That doesn't seem inherent in the phrase "the female equivalent of a 'sausage-fest.'"
Do the rules of this contest require that entries be food-related?
You of all people should find that constraint minimally limiting.
I once got through a whole conversation with an architect by asking a question about stairs. Was he just fortuitously obsessed or is the stair all architects' White Whale/One-Armed Man/Reduction in Capital Gains Tax?
I haven't known architects to be obsessed with stairs, but they are relentless with their parapets.
97: One of my college roommates took the stairs every day and he became an architect.
Just yesterday an architect tried to fool me by calling it a "cornice", but I saw through her plan to crush innocent pedestrians.
I had a parapets named Tor and Tuga.
"You know what building I like? The Parthenon! Man, they really knew how to build 'em back then, huh? Say, do you ever build anything with metopes? What about pillars?"
Just yesterday an architect tried to fool me by calling it a "cornice", but I saw through her plan to crush innocent pedestrians.
Did you hit him with the Clipboard of Compliance?
The thread has moved on but I wanted to mention, to the post title, that My Architect was very interesting. I'd put off watching it for ages, since it looked boring, but when I got around to watching it I found it fascinating.
How can you plan on raising a family in such an unsafe house? Not only could immigrants, rattlesnakes or hellgrammites sneak in through the floorboards, but I don't see any concrete bollards to prevent cars from crashing through the walls.
JRoth, I'm looking for a quote for the project of redesigning Europe along rational principles.
man, urple, sorry about your crappy basement renovation.
102: It's impossible to find a reliable triglyph supplier these days, and GCs are afraid to make them.
106: I'm sure the Parthenon people will get on splendidly with the Bauhaus volk.
The town of Yarmouth, Maine, just finished it's annual clam fest yesterday. I'm told it was a good time, but as usual, I was working all night, and sleeping all day.
The addition looks lovely, heebie/JRoth. Much nicer than the additions a lot of my parents' neighbors have done. They call them "Florida Rooms", presumably because they're hotter than the rest of the house and only old people want to be there.
