A Little Granola

Here is our most current floor plan. Except I think the kitchen will be widened by a couple of feet. (click to get a bigger picture)

And here are the criteria we are trying to fill:

• Passive solar design
• Quick, less expensive and easy to build ourselves: so simple foundation, simple roof line, simple floor plan.
• Small but not cramped, around 1500-1700 sq ft
• 3 bedrooms: One big enough for a king size bed downstairs, 2 more smaller bedrooms for kids
• 2 bathrooms: a full accessible bath downstairs with laundry
• Space for office/computer and space for sewing/crafts
• kitchen big enough for food preservation/processing with at least one good space for food prep.
• pantry
• layout so that large pieces of furniture can easily be negotiated into all rooms
• designed to make use of natural light.
• Sufficient storage (a nice vague requirement)
• Space for kids to play but be out of the way
• Wood stove for back up heat