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Originally Posted by Tommy-G
This will be an interesting build thread
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I really should start a build thread, because the ideas get crazier by the minute in our early planning process!
I want to be able to drive a car into the kitchen to unload groceries.
The other day, my DW was running the vacuum through our current living room, and cursing the height of electrical outlets. She said that we should install the outlets in the barndominium at waist height, so we don't have to bend down. I'm pretty sure that NEC dictates outlet height to be one hammer-length above the floor, but there's nothing stopping us from dangling a retractable reel extension cord down from the rafters specifically for vacuum cleaner use.
This led me to think about robot vacuum cleaners, which would never work in our current (small) house because the floor space is too covered with furniture. What if we hung all of the furniture from the rafters, so that the robot vacuum had 100% clear floor to roam?
On an episode of Top Gear, Jeremy Clarkson had put together a mood board with pictures of things to inspire him. I'm doing a similar thing, sticking pictures and post-it notes of design ideas like the retractable extension cord reel on the back of our computer room door so that we don't forget them.....