Wright Chat

The entrance or drive will come up the left side of the property and turn right to the house. You will not be able to see a driveway in the front of the house...one of my requirements :-) Yes I see what you mean about the consistency of the window spacing. What do you think about doing a flat roof? ...

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Update: Well we are into Winter in the great white north and I have to come up with a plan to submit soon to our township. I am still not sure if we are going with the attached L shape 1000 sq plan or go for a more traditional smaller cottage (we can go as low as 650 sq ft.) A bit of specs. The prop...

Thank you for the encouraging words! We will close on the property on Oct 26. Somewhat of a bowling alley property at 440' wide and 1KM long. There is a beautiful spot about 300 to 400 back from the road to the north that has a huge ledgerock for site. We will investigate sites more once we close. I...

Just an update but we have sold our property, moved up north with my wife. We are renting an apartment while we property hunt. It is not proving to be simple but I am very hopeful we will end up around south river, north of Toronto |Canada and be able to build our dream usonian. Once we attain the p...

John, I have been doing some fact checking and I am so wrong about the clearances for pellet stoves. Since the combustion chamber is way above floor level they do not need the 20" non combustible floor in front of them, and you can get the rear clearance to a combustible wall down to as little...

"The hearth could settle, or the finish floor could heave up and it would still look like you meant to build it that way!" Surely we don't have to settle (ahem) for differential settlement, do we ? What happens above---a sliding sleeve to the flue ? The matter has all to do with the soil ...

John, You will need to have 20" of non combustible floor in front of the stove and some substantial amount of clearance to any combustible wall behind the stove (depends on the manufacturer). If you made this area (including the wall) into a central all masonry core/hearth component it might e...

Wright accomplished his Usonian L-shaped plans with a long bedroom corridor. This economical little house has no corridors---a neat trick. S The original plan had a very long bedroom corridor but also two more bedrooms and bath. We are still thinking of adding another bedroom in case but to us it m...

about circulation: - from great room to bedroom - from great room to bathroom - from bedroom to bathroom is it a good idea to use the kitchen as a corridor? did FLW do this? Very good points. The original plan which included another two bedrooms and bath were somewhat modeled on Rosenbaum except my...

Yes this is of course another option I considered regarding the roof. I have seen models of it done this way. Will consider this. Wife is reconsidering flat roof as well...just have to consider snow load but I keep picturing it easier to get up on a flat roof to clear snow/ice than a high pitch if n...

Thank you so much for all the comments and suggestions! ROOD LOL, The area we are considering is generally in the upper part of Algonquin, no where near north as what you are picturing! We live in the southern most area of Canada now so anything even a bit north is cooler for us! Winters are certain...

I used to be on this board. My wife and I had plans to build a Usonian style house but were side tracked for MANY reasons. This was about 6 years ago. We are back on track and will be building in the spring...just a much smaller Usonian style cottage. Attached is a rough rough sketch what we have in...