Jack had a lot to do. While wrestling together the spires, he was also working on interior finish work. Because I want to have nothing blocking the sixteen windows of the Upper Yurt bedroom (there will be a half-bath up there with a "vanity" partition that will not extend higher than the bottom of the windows), the closet for clothes was to be in the back half of the "oval" office. |
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Jack and I had a wonderful couple of hours talking deciding how to construct the closet. It's one thing to have an idea. It's another thing to collaborate with someone who has experience and knows what can be done. Since the space in front of the closet was to be the office, there needed to be space for the desk (a shelf built into the wall) and a chair or two. We decided to have the closet door recess a bit, resulting in the curves. |
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We decided the closet's ceiling (roof) should replicate the overlapping detail of the ceilings of the Yurts. Note the graceful curve of the wall. |
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The curves again. Note how nicely the roof lays over the lintel above the door at the center of the two curves. |
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Here's the closet with the cedar wall board installed (1 X 6 tongue and groove). It's also been oiled. I find it difficult to take images inside the building. To have the entire closet in the image, I used a wide angle lens. We since installed one of the re-finished doors in the closet. |
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I arrived one morning to see a doe walking into the wooded area in front of the Yurts. I went into the Studio Yurt and saw her sitting down about twenty-five feet from the window. |
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This is the sketch of the kitchen layout. The sink's in the middle with the stove on the right and counter and refrigerator on the left. From such a sketch is Jack able to produce great results. |
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These are the beginnings of the kitchen cabinets: the boxes for the sink and the two side cabinets that will house drawers. |
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John Sheaff virtually gave me thirteen pine flooring boards that came out of the old farmhouse he grew up in. I'm of the impression that the house was built in the early nineteenth century, so this is pine like one doesn't easily find today. Jack is using it on the faces of the cabinets as well as for the cabinet doors and drawers. |
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This is the bench Jack has set up for his work. Note the frame and panels for the cabinet doors at the back of the bench. |
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On the other hand, at the opposite end of the spectrum/Concentric, the table is strewn with the miscellany. |
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Posted on Oct. 5, 2006 |
. -Stanley |