Mr and Mrs Triassics New Home

The shed on the left is our utility shed and contains our washing machine and dryer. It’s also my workware changing room, I’m not allowed inside the cabin with my dirty cloths on! 

That looks adorable!  I'm sure it's different when you have to fit most of your life in it, but it really does look great.  How many sq metres is the living space?

You asked about the view, he’s one looking east towards Ingleborough and Yorkshire. This was taken from the garden, below you can just see the chimney of our closest neighbours house.

 

What a fantastic little cabin, well done, you must be stoked. 

Great little cabin (and I was going to try and flog you our old caravan)

Awesome.

Love it. Haven't you posted similar pics before?

3 hours ago, Triassic said:

You asked about the view, he’s one looking east towards Ingleborough and Yorkshire. This was taken from the garden, below you can just see the chimney of our closest neighbours house.

 

Can you see me on my scaffolding?

That looks amazing. The stuff of fairy tales . 

11 hours ago, Onoff said:

Love it. Haven't you posted similar pics before?

I have, but I’ve toyed with the idea of a blog for a while. So it’s pulling previous postings into one place.

6 minutes ago, Triassic said:

I have, but I’ve toyed with the idea of a blog for a while. So it’s pulling previous postings into one place.

 

I remember I think some older shots in Summer maybe taken from the right. Worth posting again probably.

The snow picture looks idyllic! When I was building our lodge I often thought I would have been just as happy in a tiny house like this one after being so happy in the caravan. Have you started your build yet? 

Love the glimpse of the Christmas tree...you need to make your very own Christmas cards with that picture.??

 

1 hour ago, iSelfBuild said:

I often thought I would have been just as happy in a tiny house 

 

We felt this way after living in our caravan, the house felt huge, other half still says “why do we need such a big house?”. I reply “you were there when we planned it” (her shoes and handbags were in storage! ) ?

 

 

I knew this house would be huge for 2 people but the OH wouldn’t build a smaller one. God knows why. I have way too much ‘stuff’ for a tiny place though. 

5 hours ago, iSelfBuild said:

Have you started your build yet? 

The basement and the raft foundation are complete and the TF has been ordered.

This is very impressive! What insulation have you got in your cabin?

On 05/05/2019 at 03:02, janelondon said:

This is very impressive! What insulation have you got in your cabin?

@janelondon the walls and roof have 145mm of Kingspan in them. Keeps the place warm in winter and cool in summer.

2 questions if I may

 

1) Did you have to pay for building control for this building separately (35m2 implies BC is required)

2) From the planning point of view, what is this house? Does it contain permanent of temporary sleeping accommodation? Why did it have to be added to planning application?

 

We have enough space to build something similar in our garden as it looks increasingly obvious that we won't be able to stay in our house while it's been extended. Would probably become a gym eventually - if we ever manage to do any of this of course :-) 

@oldkettleTo be honest BC only visited twice, one to look at the foundations and then when the frame was up. Their fees included the inspection of the cabin and the house.  Since then I’ve not involved them in the cabin, we just finished it and moved in. No doubt in 20, 30 or 40 years our relatives can sort of a completion certificate!

 

It was our architect who suggested we add the cabin to the planning application for the main house, mainly so we had something formal and to stop anyone suggesting we didn’t have permission. The description of the cabin in the planning application was vogue, we simply added a front and side elevation of the cabin in a small space on the house plans, no one questioned it. However it’s  in Band A for Council Tax purpose. Looking at the accounts it cost a grand total of £30k to build.

 

The cabin has a formal bedroom, a bathroom with shower and a living room with corner kitchen. Above the bedroom is a storage mezzanine, this contains a double mattress on the floor and is used by us when we have friends to stay over. 

 

In future it might get BC sign off and use it as a holiday let.

Edited May 27, 2019 by Triassic

@Triassic, ref the cabin, you had no issues like being in an AONB, SSSI etc?

There is a SSSI within 10 feet of the cabin, I just kept a watch out for slow worms. The only issue in the eyes of the planner were bats, we had an initial bat survey, but none were found to be roosting, either in the old house, or the trees we removed to build the cabin.