03-24-2009, 12:23 PM
Russ Bellinis Wrote:I think I would consider the room a 10 x 10 for the layout. I would reduce that by 2 -3 feet along the area in front of the walk-in closet and the patio doors. Put your work bench in the corner opposite the entry door next the the walk-in closet wall. The window I would cover with a back drop, and then design the layout to be around the walls with it narrowing to a draw bridge or swing bridge in front of the bathroom door. To avoid duck-unders put the entrance into the layout either in front of the patio doors or in front of the walk-in closet. I think I would put the entrance in front of the patio doors so that you can easily enter the layout from outside, but you may want to put in a wall there to provide some insulation for the layout during winter. Being from Southern California where REALLY cold weather gets down to the high 50's sometimes and perhaps into the 40's at night, I'm not familiar with really cold weather.
Excellent considerations. We live in the middle of the Monument-Divide weather machine, with temps that go to 100 in the summer and well below freezing in the winter, and this is a solar home. Heating and cooling are serious considerations as the house is fed by a solarium that covers the entire Southwest front of the house and opens, by patio door sets, into the Living Room and Master Bedroom as well. This particular set of doors opens directly to the outside, but that side of the house can get hot in the summer, and too much heat is BAD. I was thinking of using something like a water heater insulation blanket to cover the inside of the patio doors, which would allow the doors to be used, be easy to remove as needed, and could be covered with a suitable drop to enhance the scenery.