What is more comfortable - an apartment or a country house? Of course, the house! There are ardent supporters of apartments, but most people still prefer to have their own house. After all, there are many advantages to this:
- Always fresh air.
- Own plot where you can plant both vegetables and flowers.
- No "perpetual repair", which is usually always heard outside the walls of the apartment.
- No neighbor squabbles behind the wall and loud music at night.
- Guaranteed barbecue or barbecue at any time of the day.
- The silence and lack of din on the site, in contrast to a noisy street.
- Convenient content for your favorite pets.
Do-it-yourself homebuilding or hiring a brigade?
First of all, you should decide who will build the house: you or a hired team. Construction companies have 6x6 house designs. If the decision is made in favor of the construction company, then the question rests on the cost and quality of the services provided. It is important to find good professionals from a company that does not sell low-quality material. Unfortunately, there are a lot of such companies that claim to be high-quality absolutely poorly dried and base building materials. If you decide to build a house on your own, then it is worth considering the simplest technologies that do not require special skills, but allow you to build beautiful housing. Let us dwell on the technology of frame-panel structure, in which the layout of a 6x6 house is possible.
What is a frame house
The 6x6 frame house is unpretentious in its requirements. It has a very low weight, which significantly affects the choice of the type of foundation. Here you can use the least massive foundation, for example, some subtypes of stone type, or a monolithic shallow type. Of course, the features of the site itself will play an important role, namely: is there a difference in height on the terrain, the type of soil and its bearing capacity, the presence of water, and much more. But the main fact is that a frame-foundation house will not require a capital foundation, which will reduce the overall cost of construction.
Matching the built-up and usable area is a plus in a frame-panel house, since the walls of such a house are very thin in width, but, despite this, have very good thermal insulation. In some ways, frame houses are even warmer than timber houses. In houses made of timber, the walls are quite thick and require additional insulation if you plan to stay in the winter season.
House layout
Frame house can be of various sizes and formats. The most commonly used layout is 6x6. Usually, with this markup, a room and a living room can be placed on the ground floor of a house. This option is standard, especially for the cottage type of houses. The room is quite spacious and bright due to the presence of two windows. The living room is not inferior in spaciousness to the main room. It can easily be placed in it, for example, a wardrobe and other furniture. On the second floor there is also a room that will serve as a bedroom; if desired, you can equip a bathroom, which can be located on the second floor. It is logical to equip the territory of the flight of stairs in the form of an additional light source by placing a window there. This option is easy to find by studying the designs of 6x6 houses.
Do not forget that the height of the first floor of the house, regardless of layout, is always greater than the second. Typically, the rise of the first floor to the lower ceiling is up to 2.8 meters. And the rise of the second floor to the roof space, if there are no additional floors, can be up to 2.5 meters.
Terrace annex
The layout of the 6x6 house implies an area of the first floor of 36 square meters. To increase the usable area and, accordingly, a more comfortable stay, you can attach a terrace to the house . It can be carried out either according to the standard project of a construction company, or carry an individual character. Typically, the terrace is built on the same foundation as the house. But there may be exceptions when the house is placed on a strip foundation, and the terrace is attached using columnar support.
Hat at home
A full second floor with a specially designed project also increases the squares of usable area. The shape of the roof also affects the area of the second floor. The layout of the house 6x6 allows you to erect the following types of roofs :
- Shed roof. It has only one slope of a small inclined angle. More often erected on buildings for household purposes, for example, a garage or a barn. But with certain successful design projects it can perfectly "sit" on the house.
- Gable roof. Standard view of roofs for houses. It can be broken or attic. With a broken roof type, the volume of the attic is larger, which means an almost full second floor.
- Four-slope. Usually it is called a half-hip type of roof. It is most often used for country and village houses.
A 6x6 country house is an ideal option for small cottages or for lovers of small and cozy buildings.