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Reviewing the Home's Layout

Bob meets developer Joe Valle and general contractor Wes Lohr at the Mashpee affordable home site. This three-bedroom starter home features an open floor plan with integrated space and living activities. Kitchen and dining areas are shared and adjacent to the living room on one side and the laundry on the other. The large open spans are made simple with the use of engineered lumber products like the joists and glulams. The open plan is enhanced by a cathedral ceiling in the living room that is produced by a jack valley. Lohr explains how construction of the jack valley differs from the standard add-on peak that is typical of the modified Cape design. This framing method brings dramatic, usable space to the interior of the home, making it seem much larger and more spacious.
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Reviewing the Home's Layout

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" We've got west hero I don't good I thought -- and assistant you know Valle our developer and Joe what's the size this -- dishonest 1500 square feet plus or minus Bob the nice starter home size good size pump first or yes yeah. And so we've got essentially a big open plan right the plan home of this size really is to make him feel wide open. I think that by leaving. Some of the walls -- and making these rooms integrate with each other people feel a sense of space and the standings people love living communal -- having our kitchen and dining area and living area here. You can all be in one place at the same time yeah and the kind of technology and wood products that you've got today makes it easier to do notice you got Michelangelo at."

" The glimpse of -- engineered lumber give us the ability to stretch out some of these openings and carry more load. And bigger openings and that's a good ten foot span -- it is so we've got our living room our dining room all open onto the kitchen space. But the volume that you create here with this cathedral really makes big difference -- yeah this is -- an exciting area this is when did something a little different there. This is called the Jack valley and what it isn't you take two members. And we bring on torn out of this instructional engineered lumber. And now we're able members that you're referring to are that the valley up there those you've doubled up two by eight side. I've had doubled up two by tends to its -- the Jack valley typically what's done. There's a beam could be placed in from wall to wall and these front rafters. That come down would carry all the way across to this would be done more likely add on or. -- to bail on. It would look the same from the outside the outside it would still look like a dormer but it would just be tacked on exactly right inside the deaths and opens up the whole ceiling. And gives a nice effect yet again is a very nice effect."

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