The project remains delayed by the lawsuit etc and might be dead for the time being. I will continue to post to this blog on the hopes that sometime over the coming 24 months we will finally get started on it. But do not despair me hearties! There is plenty going on to blog about.

Sometimes you build with the wood you’ve got….

So we are nearing completion of the addition to the gallery in Madrid. I will have some pics at some point, but the important point is that we’ve done much of the construction with bits and pieces that had been reserved for the Main Project (the Strawbale House).

Devoted readers might recall that during the process of getting ready to build the House, I sourced a large amount of old recycled wood to be used for beams and ceiling decking and etcetera. The evil fellow that I am waging legal battle against actually screwed the order up and we almost lost the wood to someone else. Worse, he charged me for the wood in spite of the fact that I paid for most of it directly (it’s all in the lawsuit). In any event, we had a large amount of very, very interesting old barn wood siding, beams and posts sitting out in the elements in the middle of nowhere.

Rather than risk it being damaged, and given the changes we will have to make to the main house design in any event, I decided to use as much as possible in the construction in Madrid proper – on the gallery and the cabin.

In the course of building the addition, I decided that I wanted to use one of the 13+ foot long old beams for the main support for the roof. Also, I have many long cedar beams that would make up the main rafters for the same. Those beams were supposed to be used for the portales around the house, but we’ll just have to go with something else when we get there.

Also for the portales, I had a number of smaller sticks that proved perfect for securing the metal roof of the addition (they were going to be used for the same in the portales.)

Finally, for the ceiling decking and the outside of the structure I decided to go ahead and use the old red-tinted barn wood. In the end, the addition will look older than the gallery itself.

More soon on the fate of the cabin.

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