Kitchen in Guner Tautrim’s wooden home on California coast
Interior woods were all milled on site and include a floor of black walnut, kitchen cabinets of silky oak and black acacia, wainscoting of red gum eucalyptus, red ironbark eucalyptus, and yellow acacia; as well as kitchen counters made from large slabs of swamp eucalyptus…
This is Sneak Preview #11 from our forthcoming book, Small Homes, to be published in spring, 2017.
Renée’s kitchen built of driftwood, Northern California, 1970s
Photo by Lloyd Kahn
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Scarf joint in barn on Cape Cod, Massachusetts
Photo by Lloyd Kahn
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A kitchen on Lasqueti Island built by an old carpenter named John. The whole house is very original — many curved doors.
This is Jay’s cabin, on a little island near Seattle, it’s like a hobbit house — buried under the dirt with a large south window. He lives on this land with his sons. Beautiful garden, see view. Secret place the civilization with Barbie concrete homes are being built around the land.
This is our funny USA building in Humboldt County. Menthé and I built it in about 10 days.
We used old first-growth cedar for the frame and old yellow shakes for the roof. The timber is a mix between French and American techniques; the low wall in shingles and the high wall in colombage. The roof is curved like the “Philibert Delorme roof”; we didn’t use a lot of wood to make the curve because we screwed the inside of the plank on to the top of the curve, a cheap beautiful technique.
The upper little roof is where you can watch from the bedroom mezzanine — just for fun. The gypsy Dodge does not have a motor, so it needs to be moved with a tractor on the property. It’s a friend’s bedroom, 6 ft. high!!!!!!
Photo by Lloyd Kahn
Kate Todd’s handmade home near Point Arena, Mendocino County, California. Kate was featured in Home Work.
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From our Tumblr
Photo by Lloyd Kahn
During my bookstore tour in Oregon in June, I took a few days off to drive around in the Willamette Valley (south of Portland) to hunt for barns. It’s a beautiful area, kind of like a mini-Sacramento Valley — flat, rich farmland, abundant water, with steep mountain ranges on 3 sides. I spotted this barn with it’s gracefully curved roof and did my usual trespassing to shoot the exterior.
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Hi Lloyd and friends,
Just thought you might like to see some photos of SunRay’s latest creation — a funky little treehouse nestled in ponderosa pine trees, built during the recent 20th anniversary Natural Building Colloquium in Kingston, New Mexico. I have a bunch of images on my website here: www.theyearofmud.com/blog
It’s a beautiful structure, particularly the roof. Hope you enjoy!
–Ziggy
Brian “Ziggy” Liloia
Natural Building Workshops & moreP.S.: By the way, I’m greatly looking forward to the next book!
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Ian Ingersoll’s home, built of recycled barn timbers in the ’60s with help from his friends Caleb (center) and John Welles (right). The home burned down in the ’70s. This picture is the cover photo from our book Shelter II.
Photo by Lloyd Kahn
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Photo by Lloyd Kahn
Lloyd Kahn’s home, built in 1967 at Burns Creek, Big Sur, Calif., out of recycled lumber and hand-split redwood shakes.
Mike Basich, our star builder in Tiny Homes, is building a small home in the Sierra Nevada mountains. Photo of it under construction.
This is Sneak Preview #8 from our forthcoming book, Small Homes, to be published in October, 2016.
Round roof barn in Willamette Valley, Oregon
There are buildings that have — for lack of a better word — a sweetness to them. Like a small abandoned cottage in an English field I once found, slowly disintegrating back into the soil from which all its materials came. Inside, I could feel the lives that had been lived there. Or the buildings of master carpenter Lloyd House. It happens most frequently in barns, where practicality and experience create form with function. No architects needed, thank you.
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Bill and Athena Steen, the straw bale/earthen plaster maestro/maestra team from Arizona are helping build this home, which will be featured in our new book, Small Homes.
Bill writes: “Interior adobe wall in a clay-plastered straw bale house we are helping our boys build in Sonoita, AZ.”
(Bill shoots pretty much all his photos with an iPhone — has been doing it for a few years. I’ve finally come around to doing this. Both of us still use the big cameras (him a Nikon, me an Olympus OM-D) for serious shoots, but the iPhone for everyday shots. The new iPhone 6s Plus has a super new camera.)
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