New Man Cave

[nipper]

Not wind talking at all. He means a gambrel roof. Kind of hard to describe, but it does exist. Just google gambrel roof and I think you will immediately recognize the style.

[Skools Out]

hey MJ come on down once you're done with the siding, then you can help put siding on my shop it's a little larger but no biggie. it 40' x 60' with 16 ft walls.

[C YENSEN]

how is it coming??

[Blue_Runner]

Gambrel roof = aka a barn-style roof.

My house has one and looks a lot like a barn....ask skools, he has seen it.

I built my house when I was 23 and only had 1 bedroom w/all living quarters on the 2nd story. It is 28' x 36'. Without the gambrel roof there wouldn't have been much room at all upstairs. Now since I've had kids I finished off the bottom half which used to be kinda like a garage. Put in 2 bedrooms, laundry room, a full bath, and nice big closets. Looking forward to add on a garage with an extra room upstairs very very soon. My builder said he'd be ready to start in a month...that was 3 weeks ago. Foundation is in and part of it is already concreted.

MJ - what kind of stairs will you use to access the upstairs? Stairs inside or outside? How wide? If inside the stair casing can take up a lot of room. I'm assuming it will be inside and only wide enough to be practical as to not use too much space but still be able to carry stuff up to the loft.

Looks good, wish I could start building a shop.