Building the dream…
We get a lot of questions about our unique guest house and how exactly it came to be, so we put together a slideshow chronology of the entire process. 4 years and 10,000+ manhours of labor compressed into about 2 minutes! You can see the deconstruction of the original hay barn, construction of the ‘new’ guest house, … Read more
Dining in a silo
To accomodate seating for 6-8 people in the small silo, I created a booth-style dining room. The seat is made from thin maple strips formed into a curved butcher block arrangement. The table was built using a cedar tree trunk and pine lumber salvaged from the garage we deconstructed last summer. The dining room is ready for … Read more
Running on the sun.
The mega solar array has been active for a couple of months now and I am pleased to report that the everything has been working very well. I designed the barn foundation as a high mass sand bed storage system, capable of receiving the heat from the solar collectors during the day, storing it in the … Read more
