Originally Posted By: doekiller
I am not a builder or architect, but two thing my grandfather, who designed hundreds of them, always told people who were building a house they wanted to retire in where:

Don't put the bedroom on the second floor. (At the very least have a room on the main floor that can be coverted to a bedroom)

Have at least one entrance to the house that doesn't require you to go up steps.


Thanks! Good point! grin I have considered it and have a plan for it.

Take a look at the main floor plan and look over at the door leading out of the kitchen. We will be adding on to that side with a dog trot style great room with a big fire place and you will walk through that room and into a master bedroom suite... All on the main floor.

But for the next 10 years of so, what you see will be the main cabin, and then as we near retirement we will add on the rest.