Our friend Tom spent months building this exquisite little barn. It’s 16″ long by 12″ high at the peak, by 11″ wide. There are 1160 hand-split cedar shakes on the roof. To my mind, it’s art in the highest order. It should be in a gallery. If someone were interested in supporting arts and crafts, I’d say it’s worth a minimum of $5,000. Even then, his hourly rate would be below minimum wage. Sigh. Such is the status of guerrilla artists.
About Lloyd Kahn
Lloyd Kahn started building his own home in the early '60s and went on to publish books showing homeowners how they could build their own homes with their own hands. He got his start in publishing by working as the shelter editor of the
Whole Earth Catalog with Stewart Brand in the late '60s. He has since authored six highly-graphic books on homemade building, all of which are interrelated. The books, "The Shelter Library Of Building Books," include
Shelter,
Shelter II (1978),
Home Work (2004),
Builders of the Pacific Coast (2008),
Tiny Homes (2012), and
Tiny Homes on the Move (2014). Lloyd operates from Northern California studio built of recycled lumber, set in the midst of a vegetable garden, and hooked into the world via five Mac computers. You can check out videos (one with over 450,000 views) on Lloyd by doing a search on YouTube:
Nice Barn. (make a fair good Tiny Home…….)
Lloyd,
thought you might like a gander at this lad’s work. Too bad I couldn’t send your blog to him. Think he might enjoy your blog….)
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-7052843/Teenaged-carpenter-18-transforms-5-000-canal-boat-luxury-holiday-home.html