{"id":741,"date":"2008-08-11T10:20:21","date_gmt":"2008-08-11T17:20:21","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/acornabbey.com\/blog\/?p=741"},"modified":"2008-08-11T10:20:21","modified_gmt":"2008-08-11T17:20:21","slug":"i-signed-a-contract-to-build-my-house","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/acornabbey.com\/blog\/?p=741","title":{"rendered":"I signed a contract to build my house!"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href='http:\/\/acornabbey.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/08\/gothic-cottage-bw.jpg' title='gothic-cottage-bw.jpg'><img src='http:\/\/acornabbey.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/08\/gothic-cottage-bw.jpg' alt='gothic-cottage-bw.jpg' \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>I signed a contract today with a construction company in King (also in Stokes County) to build the exterior of my gothic cottage. I also got the building permit from the county today. The construction company is eager to start, so work on the foundation may well begin this week.<\/p>\n<p>As I mentioned in an earlier post, a metal roof, flared at the eaves, was just too expensive. I&#8217;ve ended up with a conventional 30-year roof. The roof will be dark green. The exterior of the windows and doors also will be dark green. The siding and trim will be rough-sawed white pine. The white pine, when newly sawed, is a cool yellow color. After a few months of exposure to the sun, the pine takes on a warm, golden hue. Then gradually over the years the siding will turn gray.<\/p>\n<p>The people in the Stokes County building permits office, when I commented on the low cost of the building permit, said that it has been a long time since they&#8217;ve issued a permit for a house this small &#8211; 1,250 square feet. The permit price is based on square footage. I&#8217;m kind of honored, actually, that in Stokes County, North Carolina, which is far from a rich county, I&#8217;m building the smallest house that anybody has built in a long time.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I signed a contract today with a construction company in King (also in Stokes County) to build the exterior of my gothic cottage. I also got the building permit from the county today. The construction company is eager to start, so work on the foundation may well begin this week. As I mentioned in an &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/acornabbey.com\/blog\/?p=741\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;I signed a contract to build my house!&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[15,17],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-741","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-sustainable-living","category-the-house"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/acornabbey.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/741","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/acornabbey.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/acornabbey.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/acornabbey.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/acornabbey.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=741"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/acornabbey.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/741\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/acornabbey.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=741"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/acornabbey.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=741"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/acornabbey.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=741"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}