Rick Gordon has built it and we’ve been tinkering with it for a few months, and finally it feels ready to go. Whereas my blog is all over the place, The Shelter Blog will focus on homes, building, carpentry, gardening, farming, foraging, fishing, homesteading and the home arts. Check it out here:
https://www.theshelterblog.com
Note: it’s theshelterblog.com, not shelterblog.com. You need the article the.
I’m really excited by this. It’s as important — maybe in the long run more so — than one of our books. We have no competition here, since we have feedback from our 40 years publishing books on the subject of shelter. Plus we can share brand-new incoming photos and stories rather than wait years to get same into a book. It’ll be complimentary to our books.
We guarantee at least one new post per day, hope to get multiple posts daily as we get rolling.
Tags: architecture, barns, builders, carpentry, cooking, crafts, fishing, food, foraging, gardening, homes, homesteading, small homes, solar, tiny homes, tiny homes on the move, tiny houses, tools, vehicles, woodwork 
“This huge, sawn-timber hay barn was originally built circa 1870. The flooring, ceiling and exterior siding are vintage reclaimed barn boards. The restored barn is now a guest house, garage and wine cellar for a residential estate in southwestern Connecticut.”
Click here for a bunch of photos.
Beautiful slide show. From Lew Lewandowski
https://www.mesenko.com
Robert Van Vranken is one of the contributors to our forthcoming Tiny Homes on Wheels, and just sent us the link to this video. It’s wonderful!
“A meditation on the vernacular architecture of the common shed. Shot during the winter of 2014 in the Northeast Kingdom of Vermont. ”
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Daltrion Blackmon and his Grand Marquis (ex cop car), Monroe, NC
Marshville, NC
I love this! From Lew Lewandowski.
Northwest Passage:
Exhibit of paintings by Michael Gregory at Nancy Hoffman Gallery, 520 West 27th Street, NYC,
January 30-March 8, 2014
“Michael Gregory was born in Los Angeles, California in 1955. He received a B.F.A. from the San Francisco Art Institute. He resides in Bolinas, California.
While the barn and other structures such as silos and stucco buildings, took “front and center” in Gregory’s work for the past five years, these structures were always painted in a landscape. In his most recent work, the artist’s decisions are fueled by a desire to create a shift in visual space in the paintings. His newest works are a step back, a new vista onto the landscape near his home in Northern California.
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Unfortunately, most of the photos here (55 barns) are quite small. But it’s a great guide for any barn lovers in this neck of the woods.
Click here.
Sent in by Rich.
