Our Handmade House

  "Dare to be naive''   -Buckminster Fuller said that.

                                     

We started construction on our house in April of 1995 when we were still technically teenagers. What started as a need for shelter and an escape from paying rent quickly became a passion. We were art school dropouts with a lot of time on our hands, and we weren't afraid of getting splinters and bending nails.
 When we realized, later, that we wanted to have a family through adoption we had to add on a major addition. We dug by hand 15 feet to fit the new addition into the hillside. The finished "new" part of the house was a chance for Baldwin to use hardwood lumber that we had milled from the forest around our house. Much of the interior of the new addition has hand-carved trim and salvaged junk that we incorporated into the finish work. It's always an ongoing process, and it's never complete. The tape measure has recently been out to measure spaces for a child's bedroom (which, of course, would have to have an onion top roof!)