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12 Things I Wish I Knew Before Building a House

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Unlike traditional homes, A-frame cabins offer limited closet and storage space due to their sloped wall design. The architect's original design might include a dedicated furnace room and a small hallway closet, but often lacks provisions for essential items like water heaters or adequate linen storage. To mitigate this, a tankless water heater is a space-saving alternative to a traditional tank. Utility closets can be optimized with shelving for brooms, vacuums, and other cleaning supplies. For additional linens, bedsheets, and pillows, residents may need to utilize dresser drawers or create custom built-in solutions, as dedicated linen closets are typically absent, especially upstairs.

Goal: A-frame cabins inherently have limited storage, necessitating creative solutions like tankless water heaters and utilizing small utility closets effectively for brooms, vacuums, and additional linens.

Tools and materials

  • Shelving
  • Tankless Water Heater

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you have to come up with number nine on list when considering building a cabin that you might not expect is the limited Closet Storage with an A-frame originally The Architects designed this to be the laundry room this is a dedicated furnac room as you could see you can't use it for utilities or anything else exclusively furnace and this was just going to be a hallway closet but one thing the Architects didn't incorporate it in is a place for a water heater so the solution was to put a tankless water heater in here to save space and to be able to have at least a utility closet where you could put brooms and vacuums and dust pans and any other kind of thing like that so you'd have your tankless water heater in the corner you have a junction box in here for connection and charging your vacuum and maybe a little bit extra room for your brooms and your vacuum cleaners now the only actual closet space that's here that you can use is in the primary bedroom there is a dedicated closet for your clothes and that's the unfortunate part is there's not a whole lot of places to put Linens bed sheets pillows you know additional stuff uh to sleep so the only real solution for things like that is either a put a shelf in that utility closet and consider it being possibly getting dusty over time maybe use some of the closet space dedicated for those Linens or maybe put a dresser specifically upstairs cuz there's no closet space at all number 10 on the

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