SPOON: a wall!

[kellan_the_tabby]

[ A corner of the first floor of the house. It’s kind of a mess. Remy’s crate takes up a lot of the shot & there’s a bunch of stuff piled on it. The corner behind it is empty of furniture, but there’s a bucket of firewood, and most of the walls are either bare insulation or cardboard over insulation. One section of the wall, though, is now covered by a full sheet of plywood that’s been painted a lovely medium teal. ]

We are, and have been, kinda struggling here. I burnt out HARD last year around this time, pushing to get the house done enough that we had somewhere WARM to live, & then I couldn’t rest over the winter, between giftmas, trying to get stock made, chopping wood, & just surviving. I wound up in no shape to build over the summer, except for a few bits here & there to make life a little more bearable, & round about August I spent most of three weeks in bed.

But! Rest, it turns out, can, eventually, cause one to be rested. & over the last month or so I’ve been cautiously (& sometimes not-so-cautiously) starting to DO things again. & this is probably the most visibly pleasing result.

It’s not much. It’s OSB plywood, the cheap & rough stuff, & that’s pretty visible when you look at it. There’s a LOT more wall to cover. & there’s a lot of OTHER things that need to get done.

But it’s a step. & not just a practical one — yes, covering the insulation is good, it’ll reduce drafts, all that happy stuff. But we could have stuck up a sheet of plain plywood for that. What’s really important to me is that we had the time, energy, & money to make it PRETTY.

It’s a good reminder that it isn’t just about struggling to survive. We can build something here that’s not just a place to live, it’s a place to THRIVE. We can build something beautiful.

What are you working on that’s practical AND beautiful?

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Comments

[corvi]

> What are you working on that’s practical AND beautiful?


We have a greenhouse dome to grow plants in! It is very pretty and also full of baby citrus trees.

[kellan_the_tabby]

ooooooooooooo I love that! CITRUS TREES YAY GOOD I hope you get a ZILLION fruit!

[corvi]

This year we're getting five kumquats and a probably inedible trifeola (hybrid between inedible hardy trifoliate orange and the delicious minneola tangelo). Next year I imagine we'll have a lot more.

[kellan_the_tabby]

Sounds like a pretty good start, there.

[siliconshaman]

Well... it's not practical but I think it's pretty. I made a Torii gate for the part of the garden that contains our little pet cemetery.

[kellan_the_tabby]

It is, too, practical, it divides the mundane part of the yard from the sacred part. (It also looks AWESOME.)

[ewt]

It is a good wall!

[kellan_the_tabby]

Thank you! I am very pleased with it!

[azurelunatic]

I'm planning a skirt, made out of some dead curtains. It's for a costume, but I hope it'll be wearable besides that.

[kellan_the_tabby]

ooooooo, EXCELLENT. old curtains can make such beautiful clothing.

[cellio]

It's a good wall and a cheerful color!

[kellan_the_tabby]

Jasper really found us a good one. Just two plywood panels downstairs, now, & it's SO much more cheerful.