Plan finalized

Our final plan is for a 43' X 25' (40' X 22' interior dimensions), rectilinear house. This is 880 square feet. Take away 176 sq ft for the shop and cold storage, and that leaves 704 sq ft of living space. Modest by today's standards: some would even say that dreaded word, "small" (people who have perhaps never heard of the Small House Society or read The Not So Big House). The skeleton is post and beam (using the methods outlined in Rob Roy's Timber Framing for the Rest of Us), which we will fill in with 18" cordwood infilling. Here is the final model for the post and beam framework. The high side faces south and will hold most of the glazing, and most of the living space. A central cordwood wall will provide thermal mass for the solar radiation thus gained. The low/north side is where the bedrooms and cool storage will be located.