Think I might price out just putting greenhouse roof directly above my Inner shop structure to start. If I focus on a 72'x48' square area and get it completed vertically this summer I can use the roof for my houseplants, basement for workshop and middle floor for electronics lab/living space. And then potentially move in this winter saving rent a year earlier and maybe halving the initial build cost. Can add some temporary X brace cables to the outer I beam flanges so the tall structure doesn't try to blow over in our now normal 60mph winds. Would be tight fitting all my shit but could add to the structure in easier smaller bites later. Thanks for reading my blogpost.

Need to build the posts and greenhouse shell this year, and then build some shop spaces with temporary plastic sheeting walls over the winter, then I can move out of this place next spring hopefully. The rent savings should cover the cost of the loan for the whole build over 10 years. Can piddle over the next 5 years finishing the rooms nicenice once I get a sawmill built in the greenhouse. There are dying ash trees everywhere so I can do ash flooring. Will have lots of character with all the emerald ash borer holes. Got a shaper on an auction recently with a $300 tongue and groove bit on it for $100. Not sure what I'm going to do the walls out of yet, thinking straw bales covered with lime plaster or doing some kind of plaster and lath to conserve square footage. Cracking shouldn't be an issue since no wind/hail/freezing weather inside the greenhouse.

Want my lower shop rooms to be just over 10' of headroom so I can store 10' lengths of materials vertically and move them around without hitting my ceiling.

My two different deck heights are perfectly divisible by 7". Got super lucky. Stairs are gonna be nice and consistent.

I guess I'm redesigning my shop/house out of I-beams now. Need support posts for the greenhouse structure anyway so gonna make them 6" I-beams instead of 4" square tubing. Might be cheaper posts actually and just need to weld fancy flanges to them before hot dipping so I can eventually build 2-3 story rooms randomly in them as I need rooms. My dad has a pile of galvanized stair treadplates too so I can make all kinds of really nice stairs cheap. Since I can easily go 2 stories tall with roof gardens now I might make the initial outer greenhouse dimensions smaller so I don't bite off more than I can chew in one year.

Just dumped 3k on shit for doing paper chain pots. Yeeyee. Should help me get shit in the ground wayyyyyy faster.

Struggling to function... so I made cookies.