Slowly making progress

We've been working on the land some. We are trying to dry the trees that will have to be removed while standing up. To do that we got a couple draw knives and have been girding trees. Hopefully they will dry sooner then later. Unfortunately many of the trees are diseased by mistletoe on the land and they will eventually die. We are really hoping to be able to use the wood for maybe some furniture and within the house.

One building has been completely removed and the strange diseased 10x20 cabin has mostly been removed. We are going to recycle the metal. Once we get the roof off hoping that the snow and rain will wash away the rest of the mouse evidence. Our daughter just loves being on the land digging in the dirt, finding sticks, and exploring.

We are meeting with another architect on Monday and then the third candidate the following week.

The current thought for the Quonset layout is for 2 floors. 3 bed 2.5 bath. The main floor will have a large room that will initially be used for storage until we figure out the garage situation and then will be converted to a rec room. There will be an open kitchen/living room that will get all the light from the south facing windows. Plan for a wood burning stove along with the hydronic radiant in floor heating.

Lots of planning and prepping yet to do, but it is an exciting journey. As always, feel free to ask questions or leave a comment!

Getting started

I'll give you a little background info. We bought land a year ago in Pine, CO (with the help of an amazing agent Deb Christensen) and for the last year have been throwing around too many ideas of what to build. Including but not limited to: tiny houses, straw-bale, yurt, cob, kit-homes, and traditional stick build.

My mom came for a visit in May and as we were looking through Mother Earth News noticed the Arched cabins at www.archedcabins.com. This then lead to the thought of a Quonset hut home. I was only familiar with Quonets as an agricultural building.

So then began the research on the Quonset. There are a few companies that sell them in the USA and we really started focusing on Steel Master Buildings over at www.steelmasterusa.com.
Randomly one day Austin and I were sitting around talking about the Quonset and ended up calling Steel Master only to find out they were having a sale and yup, we ended up putting a deposit on a 40'Wx41'Dx19'H Q Model building. We did add on 4 skylights.

With all that said, there has been little to no information out there on how to build this Quonset as a house so we thought we'd try and journal our experiences so perhaps someone else can learn from us. Please feel free to ask questions and I'll try and keep this thing updated.

As of today we are in the process of interviewing architects to help us with the interior design as working with a curved building adds some new architectural challenges. We are hoping to have decided on our architect by the end of September.