From ground up

First of All a many thanks goes out to John, Steve and the rest of you guys that make this resource available. I made my donation and am ready to start. Had to take it out of the budget :lol: And I also purchased my book I am going to the planning center this afternoon to get some questions answered. I live in the suburbs of Portland where they dont take a drawing on a napkin. I recently purchased a older house and have remodeled the entire place from top to bottom. 80 yards of demo debris removed. I am a specialty contractor that works primarily with concrete restoration and repair but was able to do it all myself in four months. I was very lucky in finding this house. It is a double lot. Total sq ft 16000. Side access and will have a couple parking spots My idea is to build the structure first and take pictures for resale down the road. I am calling it a shop with a bath and kitchen. My understanding is if you run 220 volt you can put in a kitchen with out classifing it as a livable space. The back lot is land locked without enough easment for building a house. 2 feet shy but enough to get a cement truck through Budget for materials is $25k.. labor is all DIY cousin is an electrician Building size 25x35x10 high Roof/truss will be vaulted on the interior Concrete floors will be stained I saved a lot of insulation from the old studio..BTW what a pain in the ars it was to remove that from the old house and garage. That was a 40 yard dump And thanks to my wife and Craigs list she found more insulation for free. Great resource if you have the time. If anyone has ideas or suggestions they will be gladly taken. Once I break ground I am sure the questions will start

Tom - when you get things into proper scale and have a decent control room size it comes out more like this. cheers john

John, First of all thank you for the drawing. I had to sleep on this and think of size per room. It looks like the two small rooms are rough 8x9 which is adequate for seperate instrument isolation. What I was shooting for was a dedicated drum booth. And a large live room. With the position of my exterior doors and bath/kitchen it makes it hard to think of any other combos. So I am thinking I will have to live with my size's. I also noticed you did single wall construction in the SE corner and door to the drum set. Any reason? or just a quicky. Believe me any time I can save money and time I will take it Thanks again. I know you hear this a lot, but your site is the most comprehensive and useful piece of info out there. Tom

It was just a quickie, the skins are another story. That control room is 16' deep which is comfortable IMO as so much action seems to take place in the control room these days. cheers john

John, No I am happy with size of the control room. My old one was 18x8. Very uncomfortable. And you are right. Most of the action takes place in the control room. thanks again for the input Tom

John, Didn't work long on this.... just wanted your thought. I saw a similiar post and started thinking this way. Obviously need some Bass traps added, ect. An update on things... Just got the call from the city and permits are ready to be picked up. I will start my new thread in construction soon. I have to get my excavator on the schedule first. I did a foundation change so I need to take the new detail with and get that changed at the same time Cant tell you how excited I am. I have been without a studio for 7 months now and I am bouncing off the walls. Not to say missing out on sooooo much business :cry:

I preferred my design - at least you can see who you are recording. cheers john

I cant argue that point. That is something I had a problem with in the old studio. I ended up putting in cameras so I could see people and it was a pain. OK... I bow to your knowledge and thank you once again T

I ended up putting in cameras so I could see people and it was a pain.

ain't that true mate - we should print it in big letters :D I ended up putting in cameras so I could see people and it was a pain. cheers john