by Earl | Jul 15, 2019 | Building the Quompound, Loft House
Carried along by the momentum the Loft House gained from the interior and end wall framing, it was exciting to follow up with the window installation. There isn’t a ton of Quonset-specific technical knowledge to impart here; the windows were installed in a...
by Earl | Jun 15, 2019 | Building the Quompound, Loft House, Tutorials
Here’s a quick rundown of how we did the final bracing at the top of the arched header, at the big window wall. If you are new to the blog, this is the third in a series on the framing of our house; you can read part 1 on interior framing here and part 2 on the...
by Earl | May 2, 2019 | Building the Quompound, Loft House
It’s one thing to draw something up, even something that takes a lot of thought, and hand it over to a General Contractor to build; it’s quite another to design something complicated and intricate and have to figure out every single part of it because...
by Earl | Apr 15, 2019 | Building the Quompound, Loft House
The Loft House is no longer a big empty shell! Our framing crew has been on the scene, and really transformed things. Here’s how it looked before they started. Bare bones ICF walls with the Quonset roof overhead. The Epic Massive Beam The first thing was to...
by Earl | Mar 25, 2019 | Building the Quompound, Workshop Hut
Our Workshop Hut: Design Evolution Like the HQ Hut, this building went through a big of design evolution as we put it together. The ideas just kept flowing and we went for it! The original plan for both of our first two huts was to put in a regular garage door for...
by Earl | Mar 18, 2019 | Building the Quompound, Headquarters Hut
Now that our front end wall is essentially complete on the Headquarters Hut (aka the Side Window Studio Hut in my Free Plans library) I thought I would compile a look back at our overall process for putting it together. Evolution of our Quonset HQ Design The original...
