What was once the wellhouse has now become the utility room. If you look at the older pictures of this project, you can see it sitting there like the little outbuilding it once was, in the midst of the posts; then in later pictures it looks like a miniature companion to the guest cottages. But once the atrium roof was in place I could remove the shabby, deteriorating roof of the structure, and with the addition of these wooden steps and cupboard-style doors it has become a utility room rather than a wellhouse. I say “utility room” because it doesn’t just house the well and its tank, filters, etc; the breaker boxes for the cottages and hot tub are also in there, as is the wifi repeater, and it provides a convenient storage spot for things like the cat litter cleaning screen and the pump used to empty the hot tub. Furthermore, it’ll soon be the only easy way into the basement under the deck (where the water, power, and internet cables all run); I designed the steps so that the two bottom ones form a single assembly that can be pulled out so I can crawl under. Later, the top of this utility room will be a bar, neatly hiding the purely-functional space beneath. And best of all, unless it gets much colder than we’ve ever seen here before, we shouldn’t need that heater to protect the pipes any more; everything is contained within the house, so the only pipe that could freeze is the hydrant coming up from the ground in front of the chicken coop, and we can just let that one trickle when necessary.
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Annex 79
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