I discovered this book at Builders’ Booksource in Berkeley last week. What’s unique is that there are scaled drawings with each barn shown, so you can tell just how each one was built.
If you haven’t discovered it, Builders Booksource is the best bookstore anywhere for books on, well, building. They’re on 4th Street in Berkeley.
A few months ago I got an email from a producer working on a series of short videos on “authenticity,” wanting to come and shoot some video here. It was for Sailor Jerry Rum. Hmmmm. OK, can I get a bottle of the rum? Well yes, and it arrived a week later. It was a spiced rum -oh oh – but I was surprised that it was pretty good. Reasonably priced and I made a great version of rum and coke, with the rum, spicy ginger beer, and lime juice. OK, I said, and 4 v. cool guys from Hold Fast Video (SoCal) showed up and we had a great 2-3 hours. Fun. Here’s the result; I like the snappy editing:
This is just a perfect little house, situated on a NorCal hillside, with a balcony facing south, looking down on a grassy downslope meadow, and out further to the blue Pacific. Pepe and his wife Pam live here. I love the dormers. They make an upper story way more livable.
This is about the last of my photos from last week’s trip.
“If every builder used 5% more American materials, it would create 220,000 jobs right now.” https://cdnapi.kaltura.com/index.php/kwidget/wid/0_04vzdsr5/uiconf_id/5590821
From Brendan O’Connor
It’s early morning and I’m in San Francisco, with my 11″ MacBook Air (the single most beautiful tool I’ve ever owned), with a latte at Caffé Roma. Ex-mayor and uber-politico Willie Brown is being filmed here, at another table. Talking about something or other. Willie dresses impeccably.
At noon I’m meeting friends from Lowell High School, Class of ’52, for lunch at Schroeder’s 100-year old German restaurant. San Francisco natives, an endangered species… Next year will be our 60th reunion, ulp!
“You are looking at pictures of a house that Simon Dale built for his family in Wales. It was built by him and his father in law with help from passers by and visiting friends. 4 months after starting they were moved in and cosy. He estimate 1000-1500 man hours and $5000 put in to this point. Not really so much in house buying terms (roughly £60/sq m excluding labour).…”
Simon’s Hobbit House is featured in Tiny Homes: Simple Shelter. Check out the comments on this website: https://ciracar.com/build-a-house-for-less-than-5000
“This incredible ‘sunken’ bridge located in the Netherlands is giving visitors a unique way to access a beautiful 17th Century Dutch fort. Designed by RO & AD Architects, the Moses Bridge literally parts the waters that surround the fort, allowing pedestrians to pass through. The bridge is made from sustainable Accsys Technologies Accoya wood, which is both FSC and PEFC certified.…”
Ziggy’s Cob Cottage is featured in our forthcoming book Tiny Homes: Simple Shelter. Next year Ziggy is hosting a timber frame workshop in northeastern Missouri. Date: June 10-23, 2012
Location: Dancing Rabbit Ecovillage
Cost: $2,000, 25% deposit
All-inclusive: includes lodging and 3 square meals a day at the Milkweed Mercantile Organic Cafe
Sustainable Design: Build a 300 sq. ft. timber frame house with passive solar design, greenhouse, roundwood porch and balcony.
All timber framing is to be completed using hand tools and traditional techniques exclusively –square rule layout, scribing, etc.
https://small-scale.net/yearofmud/2011/11/22/timber-framing-workshop-2012-build-a-timber-frame-home/
“Personalized postcards became a fad in the early 20th century; you could get any photo printed on photo paper stock and send it in the mail. The following are postcards of homesteaders in front of their new residences in South Dakota, North Dakota, and Montana, taken between 1907 to 1920. The subjects are dressed in their finest garments; they sent the cards to family members in other parts of the country to show off their new lives.
Credit: Collection of Michael Williams/courtesy Michael Williams.”
https://www.slate.com/slideshows/arts/homestead-postcards.html#all
