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.