Berkshire Pool House Finished Pictures

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Some finished pictures of our pool house conversion. From a dirt-floored art studio to a space to change, get a drink or snack, or spend some time after the pool. The pool house has heated concrete floors, a kitchenette, laundry, and bathroom, and a hammock in the loft. Architecture by James Dixon Architect.

Berkshire Pool House

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We started with a very rustic timber frame art studio. Dirt floor, no insulation, and old windows. We added polished radiant concrete floors, a small kitchen, bathroom, changing room, and sauna. We kept the exposed bedrock. There’s a lovely Cor-ten pent roof outside the front door, and Marvin multi-slide and bi-fold doors open up to the pool. Architecture by James Dixon Architects.

New hybrid timber frame/double stud wall home 4

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We had a preliminary blower door test at the house, before the insulation (dense-pack cellulose) was complete.  The blower door is a very direct measure of how air tight the house is.  We had a great preliminary number of 465 cfm or 0.58 ACH50 (air changes per hour at 50 pascals pressure difference).  That's pretty impressive with 48 windows in the house, and beats the incredibly stringent Passive House standard of 0.6ACH50.  

I also put some pictures in of the elliptical ceiling in the upstairs hall.  We made ribs of 12' MDF, and sheathed it in 1/4 plywood.  We very slowly bent 1/2" sheetrock to the radius (they don't make 1/4" that long).  The ellipse comes in tangent to the wall surface, so it blends in perfectly.