Interior Details: Six Sections: showroom, workshop, double garage, wash/lift bays; 2d floor studio; screened porch and patio. About 5,000 square feet finished. Full bath upstairs + half bath down; laundry on the first floor. All interior walls are tongue and groove #2 knotty eastern white pine applied to the interior of structural insulated panels installed over a Douglas Fir frame by Maine Barn Co; all wood with oil finish. Electrical: Two 200 Amp. Services; Lighting for Display Room-- Cable Suspended Tangent Truss Track from Lightolier;Lighting for Workshop and garage bays: Zumtobel Chiaro Garage Lights; Lights for Wash Bay and Lift Bay: Stem mounted Halophane factory lights. Flooring: Polished Concrete for Display area and Workshop; Epoxy/Polychip for Garages/Lift/Wash Bays (all concrete is 6" of 4500 psi concrete with fiber on 1/2" rebar on 18" centers over 6" of tamped large gravel, 2" foam board insulation and 10 mil plastic with SS floor drains--I learned all this here); 2 x 6 finished tongue and groove doug fir floor for studio with doug fir stairway. Lista Storage walls, cabinets and workbenches. 5 H.P. rotary air compressor with Garage Pak air distribution and hose reels; Rotary in-floor lift; Goff's curtains sepating bays. Four zones high efficiency heat pumps with dehumidification/filtering/fresh air supply with exposed metal spiral duct distribution; SS fireplace/stove in studio. Windows: Loewen triple glazed push out casements (doug fir interior, aluminum clad exterior in red to match exterior siding on exterior) with doug fir framed swinging interior screeens. Doors: Loewen hinged terrace doors off display area; Douglas Fir carriage doors from the Real Carriage Door Company for all vehicle doors and matching man doors or all exterior entrance doors. Sprinklered and alarmed.
The exterior will largely be red stained horizontal cedar siding, with same color trim. The roof is standing seam SS from Follansbee with 6" SS gutters and downspouts. The barn will be fixed up on the road side to look like an old country barn/garage/filling station with a Mobil Oil theme. It will have 2 restored antique gas pumps and two station lights on an island, and a restored and operable air pump/light between the garage doors. There will also be old Mobil signage and a 9 foot enameled "cookie cutter" Pegaus flying at the top of the front gable with a 48" Pegasus weathervane on the cupola.
I know it's a little excessive, but it sure has been fun to dream about and plan over the last several years. My wife wanted a new house--I convinced her we needed this more. She has never been able to park in our garage because I always had some car project going in our two car garage,and I have promised her that I will empty the attached garage out and that it will be all hers as soon as this barn project is finished. Of course, she doesn't care at all about her car, but wants to avoid scraping the snow and ice off her windshield in the winter time. Plus, I have promised to take the two old Indians out of the living room and the two old Vincents out of her exercise room. What a deal--what a wife!
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with a in-floor lift and wash bay. What you see is three days of work by the barn crew. We expect to have all structures up and sips panels installed by the end of next week. Will post construction photos from time to time.
