Jon @ Homer

Ideas for the back of my house

I have been working on some ideas for the back of my house, my original idea is to build a simple greenhouse area to allow access to a the basement stairs and out to a future deck. This will give me room to expand the kitchen to have room for a small table and still keep the laundry in an accessible area.

The only problem was I couldn't come up with a design that would effectually allow me to keep the new roof of the glassroom under the eve of the existing back of the house. Once I more of less have accepted that I am going to have to extend a gable onto the existing roof I could continue along with my original idea for this area.

Here is a fancy version of my idea:




My idea for this plan - is only 13 feet wide by about 7 feet deep - a very rough sketch.



I am thinking about construction the glass in the style of an old glasshouse - like this on at Allerton Park:



a close up of the wood frame construction:

posted by Jon at Homer @ 11:53 PM