A few pics of our place in Southern Vermont. Best we can tell, it was built in the mid 1960’s. It has a sister house down the road that the owners just redid. We are in an area with about a half dozen a-frames that were all built around the same time and are of our size or slightly bigger. The developer sold many as weekend houses to folks from Connecticut. They’ve changed hands many times over the years. Ours is about 900 sq/ft? It’s hard to get an exact number because of the space loss from the angled roofline/ walls. It has a loft that fits a full bed. The main level has a small living room, kitchen and a bathroom with a shower. The lower level is finished and has a walkout to the backyard. The deck really helps with useable space during the warmer months. Looking from the wood stacks up to the house. Front. Looking down from the hill behind the house. I’ve always liked this angle. Sent from my iPhone using Tapatalk
I can't thank you enough for sharing. It is wonderful. I love the stream, it is just like the one here on my land. Looking at building into a small hillside here, with the front as a walk out basement type. I am a couple of years out. Already have power, well, and by a freakish accident the cable company actually ran a cable up my farm road, and I have my Perk/Septic permit. I really do like your place. That green kayak looks pretty nice too! Thanks again!
Beautiful place Skier76 Have always liked A frame houses. On the small side, but comfy enough for a couple, or small family.
I have always liked A-Frames as well, and once saw an A-Frame design where they put a long dormer along each side of the roof to add a bit more space inside. A person could do that for both sides of the A-Frame house, or along just the south wall if they orient it right to a compass. I always thought that was a good idea, but am not knocking your house at all Skier76 , I like the A-Frame design as is. I am super jealous of your stream. I suppose a person always wants what they cannot have, and for me, I am on a hill so high up that I actually split two watersheds. Literally one side of my land goes to Penobscot Bay and the other goes to Unity Pond. No streams here. :-(
Thanks everyone! We weren't initially looking for an A-Frame, but this one came up and checked a lot of the right boxes. It's a great 4 season house with a lot to do in the area. The stream has been a challenge at times! The culverts that lead it across a private driveway and our road have backed up. Thankfully, the water stayed outside of the house. Stack, having internet is a big plus! It's something we hadn't thought about when buying the place, but we are really happy to have it. We monitor the house remotely with a temp/humidity sensor, two cameras and an outdoor weather station. Having the internet makes that task a lot easier.
Years ago, long before I built...I was out here on my farm property and a sub contractor for the cable company was parked and my gate on my entry road having lunch. Got talking with them and they said you got some power poles going back there, we can run cable to your house, I laughed and told them it was my barn and that I hoped to build a small place some day...they laughed and asked if I wanted cable to my barn...I said no way am I paying for a new line for that...they laughed louder and said they get paid by the foot and as long as there were poles they would string it anywhere at no cost...I didn't really believe them, but I unlocked the gate and said I would be back in a couple of hours, when I got back they had strung the line...a few years ago I had to extend power lines for the new place (Ouch! that was Pricey!) and to my disbelief the cable company also extend the line from the existing poles to the new ones at no charge...So, I am a 1/4 mile off the highway and have real cable...actually only internet, I really don't believe in TV or paying for it and with the internet I can do a lot of things including movies....So, it was really a fluke and a blessing to get what I have.
When we bought this place in 2010, asked cable company about service (nearest drop is .7 mi away), they wanted some outrageous figure, so nope. Dealt with Hughesnet for internet (HORRIBLE), and eventually got Dish for TV. Finally Verizon upgraded the tower on the hill to 4G service, so we switched to them for internet. Supposedly Spectrum will eventually run lines here, then I'll be able to get better internet, possibly dropping Dish.
Spectrum is just getting kicked out of NY state for not living up to it's contract to expand the lines into rural/undeserved areas...I see they also have gotten a couple of extensions for an exit date...and this month my internet bill went up another 5 bucks...what the heck...hmm, no competition and you either get the product or go without...is that a monopoly? But...the main purpose of this thread is the Beauty of A Frames!!!!
$1500 to hang cable lines on the poles to our new place ~2400 feet, I was surprised, I thought it would be a lot more, gotta have secure internet and cell or sat don't cut it.
My Grandfather and my Great Uncle were just teenagers in the 1930's, but wanting electricity for their farm, they figured if they put in the poles, the electric company would run the lines. They had to put in enough poles for about a mile and a half, but because they were a potatoes farm and not a dairy farm, the rural electrification department did not deem them priority, so they never strung the wires. But after 5 years they decided it was time, and so they finally ran the wires...but adding insult to injury, used the poles my Grandfather and Great Uncle had installed!!
Years later my Grandfather and Great Uncle accidentally got them back though! Where my old house sits was a big rock, and they got into the apple cider pretty hard and decided they needed to rid the field of the rock. Twice they tried to blast it with dynamite, but each time the soil blew out instead of the rock. So they wound the dynamite to it and touched it off. The problem was the rock was slate and while big, was thin and flat. By stuffing dynamite under the rock it went skyward and in a nice arc right on top of the powerlines taking out the wires. When the power company showed up and asked about the smoldering rock in the ditch, they just said, "meteorite".
Our neighbor behind us had a similar situation. The cable company didn't want to run the line due to their distance from the road. They came to an agreement however: The homeowner would provide the cable; the cable company would run the line. It worked out for everyone.
My wife and I fell for that one too... $35,000 worth of Bridges and gravel later, I will never have a water source on my property again! LOL
