Just browsing on the Internet today, I came across some weirdly wonderful stuff. Here you can see furniture made of old automobile hoods: Joel Hester's work at The Weldhouse (in Mesquite, Texas). And here you can see hotel rooms made of wine casks: De Vrouwe van Stavoren, Hotel-Restaurant-Serre (in the Netherlands). Here is a house built with grain silos: Monte-Silo House.
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The wine cask rooms remind me of the redwood tree house (one huge redwood log that's been hollowed out) that Lily, Emma, and I toured on our way to Sacramento a couple of days ago. It was created in the early '40s and toured the country at the time, amazing people with its entrance, small kitchen, dining area with built-in table, two twin beds (one on either side of the room) and little sitting area. I could live there. . .
Mary-Margaret really liked the wine cask rooms, too, especially those put together to form several rooms--sleeping areas and dining areas. We like those small but tidy living spaces. Yesterday when the three of us walked to a track at a nearby college--where Tom and Mary-Margaret ran together while I walked--we stopped to admire a small house that reminds us of an English country cottage. While the trend is to build and to live in these huge McMansions, we are attracted to the small and tidily kept house, the ones closer to the earth and thus more homey.
Yes. . . Our latest dream is to buy some land near here and build our own little home there ourselves.
I'm reading a book by David Petersen, ON THE WILD EDGE, In Search of a Natural Life----wonderfully, humbly, humorously written----I highly recommend it. He builds his own home on a mountain in Colorado and lives there with his wife Carolyn, gardening, hunting elk for their meat (one per year) with a bow, and basically living the kind of life I think I want to live.
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