/diy/ - Do It Yourself

>>1388859
You're welcome dude, I'm excited to see how this turns out. I'll make an email so you can send me the schematics when you get them and I'll make you a CAD draft.

>You read my mind with the long driveway. I figure a long driveway will give the illusion that the property is bigger than it really is.
Exactly that's one reason. The other is privacy and the third is "defensibility". If someone's coming on to your land to steal your shit when you're out in the boonies you want them travelling the maximum distance possible so that you can hear or see them by the time they get to yours. Plus the fact that the driveway not only snakes around but also goes down then up in elevation helps for all 3 of those points.

>I think I'm going to need to have the driveway up to number 3 because the cabin will come before the main house. Perhaps it can lead up there from the "k" in creek, assuming it's not too steep.

Note that he driveway is one the same elevation for 3/4 of its entire length to make it easier to build and also to maintain (steep dirt roads tend to get fucked up when it rains) but also to make it easier to drive on. Taking it all the way up to the cabin is one option but it would make it harder/costlier and also make your cabin less "hidden" which I think is a cool feature to have.

Alternatively you run the driveway as close as possible to the cabin (from the topo map I'd say you can make it run as close as 70ft from the cabin's hilltop without changing it's elevation), build your cabin before the trees grow back. I'm sure your truck will be able to drive up the hill before the trees start growing back, which is ages from now.

I've attached an image with just the topo lines which might be better for your bulldozer guy to understand

cont'd