I get many quiries about where the new house is in relation to the old one. The answer is the new house is directly in front of the old. The foundations are four feet apart. The roofs overlap. The old house will come down when the new one is complete. Here's the view from the driveway which goes along the west side of our proerpty from front to back.

The shop is towards the back of our property about 330 feet from our new house. From my studio windows I can see the old and new house to the north. The minature horse paddocks are on the east side of the property (right side of the picture)

The new house is much closer to the road than the old one. The only time we used the front yard was to mow the lawn. So we decided to build 29 feet from the property line. (local laws allowed us to be 25 feet) By using LOGIX ICF blocks as a construction material we won't hear any road noise. We've also oriented most of the living areas to the south away from the road. The view of Vedder Mountain is visible from that side as well, plus the 330 feet of green rolling lawn, not to mention the minature horses.

We live in the center of a small town on the main drag through town but the proeprties are large and we are surrounded on two sides by agricultural land whch is protected by law and cannot be subdivided. It's like living in the county with a small town only half a block away. I took a few pictures of the property from across the road in both directions.

The tower to the right of the picture is the electrical, telephone and water distribution center. All services come onto our property at this point and then go underground from this point to the shop, barn new house and old house. We call the building the train station as eventually the tracks for our giant scale railroad will go past this point as they circle the property.

The property suits us perfectly. It is in a small town which we love. A busy road goes by our front door with more than a million people travelling to the recreational area just up the road. It's a great place to live!

-grampa dan