New small house construction - need advice

[Antonio Gomes]

Hi,

i'm currently going on a crazy DIY project to construct a dream of mine: A small house in my garden, to hold a show room Oceanarium...
It's a small 4 meter by 4 meter and i was thinking about doing the show room on the base floor and on the first floor a all mirrored lounge room.

I'm going to go on wood but i'm think about the thickness of the wood beam/log ( not english .. i don't know if is the right word) to be a safe structure.

Any ideas ?

I will post later on the house plans...

Antonio

 

[jbonding]

how about railway sleepers

 

[breezer]

how about railway sleepers

in Portugal?

 

[Antonio Gomes]

In portugal it's quite difficult to find railway sleepers but currently in the place where i'm living there's the possibility of getting "fresh" logs from the Serra de monchique ( it's a algarve moutain ) or risking and going for the Wholesalers not so good quality pre defined logs. My problem is more the capabilite of the structure to hold on, but i wasn't planning doing it too thick just the enough.