Reader Project
Designer’s Office – Updated
These construction images show the framing and structure for this 650 square foot designers office. Manufactured trusses frame the sloped exterior walls and create space for recessed bookcases at the office perimeter. Red pine trees were stripped of their bark and used as structural columns and custom steel branch brackets support the roof carrying beams. For finish images, see:
http://finehomebuilding.taunton.com/item/3762/designers-office
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A red pine column will support the roof beam.
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Pre-engineered trusses make up the exterior walls.
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The fir roof beams are bolted to steel branch brackets and stress skin panels are supported by fir purlins.
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The completed shell.
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The interior showing finishes and built in perimeter shelving.
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I was wondering what the trick was to the leaning walls... I'm glad you posted these before I got around to trying my idea.
Zoning bylaws only allowed an in-home office on the property at 1/2 the square footage of the existing residence. I was able to add to the space with the cantilevered floor joists and truss walls allowing the built-in perimeter bookcases outside of the exterior wall line.