At 04:04 PM 9/5/2009, shochschild@att.net wrote:
>I am downsizing and moving sometime in the next 3-6 months or so.....
>Rather than my original plan of finding a ~1000 sq foot house and
then adding a
>25'x40' shop in the back, I am considering a new approach, inspired by the
>cheap foreclosure houses that are available in a nearby bankrupt
development.
>My hare-brained scheme is to put my shop _inside_ a two story, 2000 sq ft, 3
>bedroom, 1 1/2 bath house, taking up the 1st floor and garage, and actually
>living only up on the second floor.....
Well that's a little like what I wish I could do. But I'd like to
keep my 3 bd room
ranch house intact, just raise it up about 10-12' on pole and
concreate the foot
print. I'd end up with something like 1400 sq ft of shop under the house.
I don't think you'll have too much trouble with some of things you
want to do.
No one would really know. I have a friend that had a shopmate in a bedroom
of his townhouse and turned that room into his wood working shop - he didn't
have a garage. Another person I know has a small machine shop in an upstairs
bedroom of his house - small metal lath, drill press, band saw, and
disk sander.
>I am thinking I would only have to make a few structural changes,
all of which
>could easily(?) be changed back when I want to sell it:
>
However, one thing about relocating to the 2nd floor. You say, "I am
an old single guy" but you didn't say how old, or if you have any
health problems.
Going upstairs occassionally is fine, but to have to do it many times a day,
can get to be a problem if:
a. you have any kind of health problems, like copd,
b. if you break a leg or something,
c. if you just get sick.
If something really bad happened, you could have an elevator put in on your
stars.
I really like having living quarters on the 1st floor, especially
when I am sick.
John
John T. Blair WA4OHZ email: jblair1948@cox.net
Va. Beach, Va
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