picked up from a heap at the landfill<\/a> a couple years ago. The folding doors on the bedroom closet were $4.00 at a charity sale. The door on the closet in the screen porch came from one of the household demolition projects. I didn’t scrounge the glorious beveled glass exterior door that will open from the bedroom to the porch. But I did get it for some light-on-the-budget sum from the glorious surplus door, window, and plumbing place whose location I never reveal lest everybody else go there and buy all the stuff I want.<\/p>\nAnd the vinyl flooring — which just happens to fit perfectly within the frame of the screen porch? Retails at $36\/yard, but I got a 12′ x 6’7″ piece of it for $5 from a flooring guy who’d gone out of business and needed to raise bail money. Not only that; it was exactly the pattern I’d previously chosen at a carpet store. (Several finds from the ne’er-do-well flooring guy will make their way into the house when I get to that stage, mostly years from now.)<\/p>\n
So that’s it.<\/p>\n
You know, I actually didn’t set out to write about the house plans. I don’t want to become a one-note poster for the next few weeks.<\/p>\n
I set out to write about relaxing after doing so much thinking. How good it felt. How necessary it felt. <\/p>\n
To write that post, I placed myself in a somewhat altered state (something I seldom do these days). Which caused me to ramble and … not write that post.<\/p>\n
Sorry. But this one needed to be written, too, for anyone interested in seeing the plans.<\/p>\n
Maybe I’ll try that other post again later.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
The Wandering Monk and I haven’t accomplished much on the physical part of the newly re-christened Great Foundation and Screen Porch Project this week. Some teardown; the back end of the bedroom has no floor and we’ve uncovered enough crumbling, cracked, rotted, bug-eaten, twisted, misplaced, poorly thought-out beams, joists, and posts to know we had to rethink the project. And thinking is what we’ve done. Tuesday after realizing how screwed the foundation was we must have spent nearly three hours talking about how to cope. I know we both worried about it overnight. On Wednesday we talked a couple of…<\/p>\n
Continue readingGreat Foundation and Screen Porch Project — Onward!<\/span><\/a><\/div>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[14],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-30716","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-home-improvement","ratio-natural","entry"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.clairewolfe.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/30716","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.clairewolfe.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.clairewolfe.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.clairewolfe.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.clairewolfe.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=30716"}],"version-history":[{"count":18,"href":"https:\/\/www.clairewolfe.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/30716\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":30740,"href":"https:\/\/www.clairewolfe.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/30716\/revisions\/30740"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.clairewolfe.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=30716"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.clairewolfe.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=30716"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.clairewolfe.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=30716"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}} ![Floorplan<\/a><\/p>\nNorth Elevation<\/a><\/p>\nWest Elevation<\/a><\/p>\nOn the floorplan<\/strong><\/strong>, the two closets are currently a defunct hallway that goes nowhere. Be good to make use out of that wasted space. The current bedroom now covers what will be bedroom + screen porch<\/p>\nThe north elevation<\/strong><\/strong> is the very private side. It faces on a hill that used to rise directly from the foundation on the back of the house. But last year, the bottom of that hill went away. Eventually the screen porch will face out on a shady, intimate gravel-and-block patio. Eventually. Someday. The north side is also the side that gets the least rain. (And yeah, I know the drawing just looks too boringly cottagey. That’s just not the house’s best side.) <\/p>\nThe west elevation<\/strong><\/strong> is the more public side. Anybody coming to the back door (the only door anybody uses) sees that wall, as does a neighbor from a distance and through a screen of vegetation. I’ll hang a bamboo shade from the eve when privacy or shelter from wind is needed. On this side I’m showing the window trim, which I didn’t on the north. And a small window ($2 garage-sale purchase) to be added. Later.<\/p>\nYou won’t be surprised to learn that much scrounged stuff will be within. Although the lumber and construction materials are straight from the local lumberyard (thank heaven for them), lessee … The door on the screen porch is one I picked up from a heap at the landfill<\/a> a couple years ago. The folding doors on the bedroom closet were $4.00 at a charity sale. The door on the closet in the screen porch came from one of the household demolition projects. I didn’t scrounge the glorious beveled glass exterior door that will open from the bedroom to the porch. But I did get it for some light-on-the-budget sum from the glorious surplus door, window, and plumbing place whose location I never reveal lest everybody else go there and buy all the stuff I want.<\/p>\nAnd the vinyl flooring — which just happens to fit perfectly within the frame of the screen porch? Retails at $36\/yard, but I got a 12′ x 6’7″ piece of it for $5 from a flooring guy who’d gone out of business and needed to raise bail money. Not only that; it was exactly the pattern I’d previously chosen at a carpet store. (Several finds from the ne’er-do-well flooring guy will make their way into the house when I get to that stage, mostly years from now.)<\/p>\nSo that’s it.<\/p>\nYou know, I actually didn’t set out to write about the house plans. I don’t want to become a one-note poster for the next few weeks.<\/p>\nI set out to write about relaxing after doing so much thinking. How good it felt. How necessary it felt. <\/p>\nTo write that post, I placed myself in a somewhat altered state (something I seldom do these days). Which caused me to ramble and … not write that post.<\/p>\nSorry. But this one needed to be written, too, for anyone interested in seeing the plans.<\/p>\nMaybe I’ll try that other post again later.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The Wandering Monk and I haven’t accomplished much on the physical part of the newly re-christened Great Foundation and Screen Porch Project this week. Some teardown; the back end of the bedroom has no floor and we’ve uncovered enough crumbling, cracked, rotted, bug-eaten, twisted, misplaced, poorly thought-out beams, joists, and posts to know we had to rethink the project. And thinking is what we’ve done. Tuesday after realizing how screwed the foundation was we must have spent nearly three hours talking about how to cope. I know we both worried about it overnight. On Wednesday we talked a couple of…<\/p>\nContinue readingGreat Foundation and Screen Porch Project — Onward!<\/span><\/a><\/div>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[14],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-30716","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-home-improvement","ratio-natural","entry"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.clairewolfe.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/30716","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.clairewolfe.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.clairewolfe.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.clairewolfe.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.clairewolfe.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=30716"}],"version-history":[{"count":18,"href":"https:\/\/www.clairewolfe.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/30716\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":30740,"href":"https:\/\/www.clairewolfe.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/30716\/revisions\/30740"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.clairewolfe.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=30716"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.clairewolfe.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=30716"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.clairewolfe.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=30716"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}](\"https:\/\/www.clairewolfe.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/05\/FoundationProjectDrawing_FloorPlan_050417.jpg\"){kind=link}
![North Elevation<\/a><\/p>\nWest Elevation<\/a><\/p>\nOn the floorplan<\/strong><\/strong>, the two closets are currently a defunct hallway that goes nowhere. Be good to make use out of that wasted space. The current bedroom now covers what will be bedroom + screen porch<\/p>\nThe north elevation<\/strong><\/strong> is the very private side. It faces on a hill that used to rise directly from the foundation on the back of the house. But last year, the bottom of that hill went away. Eventually the screen porch will face out on a shady, intimate gravel-and-block patio. Eventually. Someday. The north side is also the side that gets the least rain. (And yeah, I know the drawing just looks too boringly cottagey. That’s just not the house’s best side.) <\/p>\nThe west elevation<\/strong><\/strong> is the more public side. Anybody coming to the back door (the only door anybody uses) sees that wall, as does a neighbor from a distance and through a screen of vegetation. I’ll hang a bamboo shade from the eve when privacy or shelter from wind is needed. On this side I’m showing the window trim, which I didn’t on the north. And a small window ($2 garage-sale purchase) to be added. Later.<\/p>\nYou won’t be surprised to learn that much scrounged stuff will be within. Although the lumber and construction materials are straight from the local lumberyard (thank heaven for them), lessee … The door on the screen porch is one I picked up from a heap at the landfill<\/a> a couple years ago. The folding doors on the bedroom closet were $4.00 at a charity sale. The door on the closet in the screen porch came from one of the household demolition projects. I didn’t scrounge the glorious beveled glass exterior door that will open from the bedroom to the porch. But I did get it for some light-on-the-budget sum from the glorious surplus door, window, and plumbing place whose location I never reveal lest everybody else go there and buy all the stuff I want.<\/p>\nAnd the vinyl flooring — which just happens to fit perfectly within the frame of the screen porch? Retails at $36\/yard, but I got a 12′ x 6’7″ piece of it for $5 from a flooring guy who’d gone out of business and needed to raise bail money. Not only that; it was exactly the pattern I’d previously chosen at a carpet store. (Several finds from the ne’er-do-well flooring guy will make their way into the house when I get to that stage, mostly years from now.)<\/p>\nSo that’s it.<\/p>\nYou know, I actually didn’t set out to write about the house plans. I don’t want to become a one-note poster for the next few weeks.<\/p>\nI set out to write about relaxing after doing so much thinking. How good it felt. How necessary it felt. <\/p>\nTo write that post, I placed myself in a somewhat altered state (something I seldom do these days). Which caused me to ramble and … not write that post.<\/p>\nSorry. But this one needed to be written, too, for anyone interested in seeing the plans.<\/p>\nMaybe I’ll try that other post again later.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The Wandering Monk and I haven’t accomplished much on the physical part of the newly re-christened Great Foundation and Screen Porch Project this week. Some teardown; the back end of the bedroom has no floor and we’ve uncovered enough crumbling, cracked, rotted, bug-eaten, twisted, misplaced, poorly thought-out beams, joists, and posts to know we had to rethink the project. And thinking is what we’ve done. Tuesday after realizing how screwed the foundation was we must have spent nearly three hours talking about how to cope. I know we both worried about it overnight. On Wednesday we talked a couple of…<\/p>\nContinue readingGreat Foundation and Screen Porch Project — Onward!<\/span><\/a><\/div>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[14],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-30716","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-home-improvement","ratio-natural","entry"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.clairewolfe.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/30716","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.clairewolfe.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.clairewolfe.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.clairewolfe.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.clairewolfe.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=30716"}],"version-history":[{"count":18,"href":"https:\/\/www.clairewolfe.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/30716\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":30740,"href":"https:\/\/www.clairewolfe.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/30716\/revisions\/30740"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.clairewolfe.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=30716"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.clairewolfe.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=30716"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.clairewolfe.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=30716"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}](\"https:\/\/www.clairewolfe.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/05\/FoundationProjectDrawing_NorthElevation_050417.jpg\"){kind=link}
![West Elevation<\/a><\/p>\nOn the floorplan<\/strong><\/strong>, the two closets are currently a defunct hallway that goes nowhere. Be good to make use out of that wasted space. The current bedroom now covers what will be bedroom + screen porch<\/p>\nThe north elevation<\/strong><\/strong> is the very private side. It faces on a hill that used to rise directly from the foundation on the back of the house. But last year, the bottom of that hill went away. Eventually the screen porch will face out on a shady, intimate gravel-and-block patio. Eventually. Someday. The north side is also the side that gets the least rain. (And yeah, I know the drawing just looks too boringly cottagey. That’s just not the house’s best side.) <\/p>\nThe west elevation<\/strong><\/strong> is the more public side. Anybody coming to the back door (the only door anybody uses) sees that wall, as does a neighbor from a distance and through a screen of vegetation. I’ll hang a bamboo shade from the eve when privacy or shelter from wind is needed. On this side I’m showing the window trim, which I didn’t on the north. And a small window ($2 garage-sale purchase) to be added. Later.<\/p>\nYou won’t be surprised to learn that much scrounged stuff will be within. Although the lumber and construction materials are straight from the local lumberyard (thank heaven for them), lessee … The door on the screen porch is one I picked up from a heap at the landfill<\/a> a couple years ago. The folding doors on the bedroom closet were $4.00 at a charity sale. The door on the closet in the screen porch came from one of the household demolition projects. I didn’t scrounge the glorious beveled glass exterior door that will open from the bedroom to the porch. But I did get it for some light-on-the-budget sum from the glorious surplus door, window, and plumbing place whose location I never reveal lest everybody else go there and buy all the stuff I want.<\/p>\nAnd the vinyl flooring — which just happens to fit perfectly within the frame of the screen porch? Retails at $36\/yard, but I got a 12′ x 6’7″ piece of it for $5 from a flooring guy who’d gone out of business and needed to raise bail money. Not only that; it was exactly the pattern I’d previously chosen at a carpet store. (Several finds from the ne’er-do-well flooring guy will make their way into the house when I get to that stage, mostly years from now.)<\/p>\nSo that’s it.<\/p>\nYou know, I actually didn’t set out to write about the house plans. I don’t want to become a one-note poster for the next few weeks.<\/p>\nI set out to write about relaxing after doing so much thinking. How good it felt. How necessary it felt. <\/p>\nTo write that post, I placed myself in a somewhat altered state (something I seldom do these days). Which caused me to ramble and … not write that post.<\/p>\nSorry. But this one needed to be written, too, for anyone interested in seeing the plans.<\/p>\nMaybe I’ll try that other post again later.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The Wandering Monk and I haven’t accomplished much on the physical part of the newly re-christened Great Foundation and Screen Porch Project this week. Some teardown; the back end of the bedroom has no floor and we’ve uncovered enough crumbling, cracked, rotted, bug-eaten, twisted, misplaced, poorly thought-out beams, joists, and posts to know we had to rethink the project. And thinking is what we’ve done. Tuesday after realizing how screwed the foundation was we must have spent nearly three hours talking about how to cope. I know we both worried about it overnight. On Wednesday we talked a couple of…<\/p>\nContinue readingGreat Foundation and Screen Porch Project — Onward!<\/span><\/a><\/div>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[14],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-30716","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-home-improvement","ratio-natural","entry"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.clairewolfe.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/30716","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.clairewolfe.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.clairewolfe.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.clairewolfe.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.clairewolfe.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=30716"}],"version-history":[{"count":18,"href":"https:\/\/www.clairewolfe.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/30716\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":30740,"href":"https:\/\/www.clairewolfe.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/30716\/revisions\/30740"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.clairewolfe.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=30716"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.clairewolfe.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=30716"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.clairewolfe.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=30716"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}](\"https:\/\/www.clairewolfe.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/05\/FoundationProjectDrawing_WestElevation_050417.jpg\"){kind=link}