I'm going to meet with an architect soon to draw up some plans for a new house. It will be in the style of this one on the left, but a stand alone house and with two of those large doors on every side for maximum ventilation and flow when it's hot out:
Reason for the doors is that I am going to have a veranda that goes around the entire house and I want to access it from any room. The spot is on top of a very high hill with views of mountains and jungle, so if it's raining outside or I feel like tracking the sun throughout the day, I want to be able to sit under a roof and enjoy the view with a pipe.
Only hitch is that during the winter, it gets cold. Enough for frost on some nights. So I was thinking about putting in a radiant heat floor (water). They don't typically have heating systems in Brazil (a wood stove at the most), so I'd probably have to do that myself or at least closely supervise because I've never heard of it here. Wondering if anyone has ever done this kind of heating on their own and how difficult it is. Not too concerned about the labour, just the technicalities of getting it in and servicing it, since I'd have to DIY that without any local experts.
When the wife asked if I had any special requests, aside from that particular style, which is fixed, I figured... smoking lounge? And that led to the veranda. I thought to maybe even put in radiant heat on a separate system for the veranda to keep my toes warm on a winter night while I kick back with a bowl, but maybe that's excessive or plain stupid. Not sure if the style of heat would make any difference outside.
Anyway, I have the chance to design my own house, so I figured that was a good bet. Slapping on an extra story to the house to make a room upstairs seemed ridiculous, since we don't really need the room. I could only come up with a veranda.
Anyone have a smoking area fantasy? I wanted mine outside, because the views are why I'm doing this, but maybe something comes up.
Reason for the doors is that I am going to have a veranda that goes around the entire house and I want to access it from any room. The spot is on top of a very high hill with views of mountains and jungle, so if it's raining outside or I feel like tracking the sun throughout the day, I want to be able to sit under a roof and enjoy the view with a pipe.
Only hitch is that during the winter, it gets cold. Enough for frost on some nights. So I was thinking about putting in a radiant heat floor (water). They don't typically have heating systems in Brazil (a wood stove at the most), so I'd probably have to do that myself or at least closely supervise because I've never heard of it here. Wondering if anyone has ever done this kind of heating on their own and how difficult it is. Not too concerned about the labour, just the technicalities of getting it in and servicing it, since I'd have to DIY that without any local experts.
When the wife asked if I had any special requests, aside from that particular style, which is fixed, I figured... smoking lounge? And that led to the veranda. I thought to maybe even put in radiant heat on a separate system for the veranda to keep my toes warm on a winter night while I kick back with a bowl, but maybe that's excessive or plain stupid. Not sure if the style of heat would make any difference outside.
Anyway, I have the chance to design my own house, so I figured that was a good bet. Slapping on an extra story to the house to make a room upstairs seemed ridiculous, since we don't really need the room. I could only come up with a veranda.
Anyone have a smoking area fantasy? I wanted mine outside, because the views are why I'm doing this, but maybe something comes up.