Our House

Our House

 Holliday with Nick and Jingle

I have been building my house on 28 acres of north-facing forested Vermont mountainside since about 1983. Almost done.  Maybe.

More photos will be posted.   I do everything myself when I can- cutting trees for lumber, backhoe, masonry, carpentry, electrical, plumbing, roofing, even gas lines.  Got a cement mixer in the front yard, and a 1940 Ford9N tractor in the side yard.  My chain saw is a Husqvarna Rancher.  I get great satisfaction from building my own home.  The most unique feature is three twenty foot long skylights  (bedroom, living room, workshop) which bring light in from above, even when the woods around the house are fully leafed out.  Or maybe its the four story silo with the sauna on the first floor and the plant room on the fourth floor.

Living room with masonry heater core unfaced.
Mona Shiber ceramic angel over door.  20 foot skylight #2

Masonry heater core by Norbert Senf .
Facing by Rick includes meteorites, tribolites,
and rocks from around the world
and from our woods.

Kitchen, finally, formerly Rikki’s bedroom.

Labor day sink project.
Sloped counter of 3/4 inch polyethylene cutting board material.

 
Rear of house with unfinished silo (rail now added)
and garage workshop on right. 2002

Sophie watching the garage slab get poured 2001.

Front view circa 2002

Birthday 2002, rented backhoe again for birthday in 2012.

Round window from Martha’s vineyard

Stained glass from Chicago Maxwell Street
Clear redwood from 4th floor of Gallaghers

Kitchen window from outside, chimneypot
from Bucks County

 Side door (Our Main Door- closest to garage- a Vermont tradition)
Is there a mudroom growing here?

Silo 1st floor  Exercise Room  Sauna Door

Sauna inside

 Silo 3rd floor  My office, my guitar, Miranda’s drum

Silo 4th Floor  Plants, Yoga, 360 degree view, roof access

Stove window

1940  Ford 9N – hauled the trees to build the house     and hayrides

Ogunquit Beach. We got married just off this photo, halfway down the left side,
between the bridge and a house just visible.
It overlooks the tidal Ogunquit River which flows from top to bottom and empties into
the ocean right under the photo. Sorry- I do not know who to credit for this photo.
Low tide is revealing the clam beds in the river above the bridge.
Judging by the dunes, old bridge,  dune width,  etc this is an old photo.  rr

Ogunquit Beach Inn ad- note new bridge (2010) two piers not six
photo from Norseman ad