I am in the process of having a 1949 Chevy farm truck renovated with the idea that my 8 yr old daughter and I will drive it (slowly) from Fargo, where the work is being done to San Francisco.
About a year ago I bought a gingham shirt and Oshkosh overalls for her and I saw a blanket like this one in the Sundance catalog. It is the perfect truck blanket for cold driving nights. Sadly, by the time I got around to placing the order Sundance was out of stock.
Luckily, I just found this link to a site that sells authentic Swiss Army blankets on Remodelista.
I am looking into minimal-sized bathrooms and I stumbled onto this. This tub is only 48″ long! The retailer, Vintage Tub, claims:
This type of bathtub was brought to America by Benjamin Franklin. After his stint as Ambassador to France, he returned to the U.S. and installed one in his own home. Composed of porcelain and cast iron, our tub will probably fit even the smallest of bathroom spaces.
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This House, located in Pine Planes, NY was designed by Preston Scott Cohen a Cambridge, MA architect and director of the Architecture degree program at the Harvard Graduate School of Design.
The project was featured in Dwell Magazine.
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While searching for information on finding the perfect builder. I stumbled on Don Metz’ website, Don wrote a book titled “Confessions of a Country Architect.” It looks like a good read, but digging into his work this barn caught my eye. Take a look at those cupolas! What a great detail. It is so unusual these days for someone to invest in high-quality, slightly whimsical details.
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This converted barnhouse in Buckinghamshire, England was designed by Simon Conder Associates, a London Architecture firm. The original post was on Gabion, I found it on materialicious.
I particularly like the entry with its clean, spare detailing highlighting the wood door and the alignment with the window across the hall. Like materialicious, the 3in limestone slab caught my eye, as did the up-lighting drawing attention to the old trusses.
This image, contributed by a member on the Houseblogs.net website reminded me of just how much I love stone walls. Of course, now with the green building wave we know that big masonry walls are also great for passive heating and cooling. So what does it take to build a new stone wall?
I found a terrific article on Mother Earth News that discusses the owner/builder’s feelings about the benefits of building and living in a stone house. The authors, Sharon and Lewis Watson, Built their home in the 70’s with the help of their two young children. They claim that it was very easy to build, inexpensive since they gathered the stones from a neighbor’s property, and unbelievably easy to maintain. What they didn’t write about was the process of building in stone.
The most common is to use the “slipform” method. Here is another article from Mother Earth News that details the slipform method.
What I am thinking about is not a multi-year project to build a barn using all stone, but creating a wall or two, of even the impression of a wood house built on top of an old foundation. Based on the stories above, this should be practical, assuming stone can be “picked up from a neighbor’s yard.”
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This great image and many more can be found on remodelista, a site that I must admit, I look at just about every day.
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Specht Harpman, a hot architectural firm in New York City and Austin designed this modern barn. The firm was started in 1995 by fellow students at the Yale School of Architecture. Specht Harpman describe themselves as:
“A small company with rigorous standards for modern design, the firm’s award-winning work includes commercial, institutional, and residential projects, as well as custom furniture.”
This project reflects this comittment to high standards in modern design. The contrast between the perfect exterior barn form complete with silo and the crisp interior produces a very inspiring home.
Specht Harpman’s website is available at http://www.spechtharpman.com/
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Simple, sturdy lights from R.A.B. Perfect for the modern barn. R.A.B. offers a variety of options for this light including fluorescent, vapor-proof, and my personal favorite, explosion proof. The barn might be gone, but the lights will be OK.
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The Osoyoos Barn by Tom Kundig of Olson Sundberg Kundig Allen Architects. Located in Westbank, BC Canada.
Sitting amid the vineyards in the heart of British Columbia’s Okanagan Valley, the Osoyoos Barn houses all the equipment required for modern viticulture. Its design draws inspiration from agricultural buildings in the area. In addition to providing weather protection for equipment, the barn has facilities for vineyard employees, field offices and a caretaker’s apartment. A small visitor’s center (tasting room, kitchen and pantry) and adjacent outdoor terrace accommodate guests on vineyard tours.
Click here for more on Olson Sundberg Kundig Allen Architects on Farmhouse Modern.
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