The wood under my foot is on is standard construction grade 2x4's turned onto their edges and packed together. I think it would look good as a finished floor. I've only seen this done once before on a youtube video tour of a passive house for a very small section of floor for a loft. However if used in new construction as a finished floor system this would cost about $4.50 a sqft. Comparatively, cheap (and shitty) laminate flooring from Home Depot (accounting for subfloor and underlayment) would cost about $3.50 a sqft. If this floor system was used on the second floor I think it would look good as an exposed ceiling. It would negate the cost of drywall on the ceiling of the first floor. The material and labor cost to install drywall is between $2.00 to $4.00 a sqft in my area. so $1.50 lest expensive, but maybe comparable in labor costs to install. My only qualms with this system is sound attenuation between floors. Thoughts?

I'm about an hour north of Philadelphia. Was up in Albany last weekend and learned they don't have wineberries up there. any sitings from other regions?

I went back to the house I grew up at today. It's not far 40 minutes from where I live. I went to water some potted plants outside for my mom. It's down a long driveway in the woods were you can't see the neighbors. I love being there alone. I loved growing up there. While I was there I felt no inclination to want to "make a lot of money as an adult" I didn't realize that to be in surroundings like that as an adult I would either have to do what my parents did which was buy property an hour from their parents where land was more affordable and build their own house (Not have it built, build it themselves). Or make a lot of money. I'm on a trajectory thanks to Bitcoin to be able to live in a remote setting and not have to sacrifice being far from my family who I love. But in the mean time I live in a town. When I visit my moms property it makes my heart hurt when I leave because of how much It reminds me that I yearn to be at peace in the woods again. That when I'm their I feel content.

chose not to mow the lawn this year, the chickens keep a fair bit of it down, and in other places patches of bigger stuff like milkweed pokeweed, and this other tall bushy robust beauty I forgot the name of make a nice environment.

what a poorly installed skylight will do to your framing if left unchecked

I've been working on this project. where I'm tearing down 3/4 of an addition to build it back bigger and with a 15 foot wall, giving the interior a 10ft ceiling. It's been challenging as a first big build. I'm working by myself. bur I'm about to throw that house in a dumpster. because it's an allready built addition the challenging part has been tearing it down in stages so I can keep it covered. there is a basement under it. this is my dad's house and honestly he chooses to do.things the hard way a lot of the time. Basically he had a builder look at it before me who was like. "yeah I'll tear it down to the foundation and built it for 180k" I'm doing it for a lot less partly because I want the experience to gain confidence to do more projects. It's also more interestingly going to have about 2x the insulation air leak control as a "built to code" new addition would have.