Saturday, January 27, 2007

The First House Model!

We actually made a model of the 'big house' out of clay from the garden. By simply adding water and breaking up the lumps, we made some great modeling clay, and using Melissa's detailed plans, built a scale model of the cob portions of the future home.

It's just a 'first draft', so not everything is in place, and hey, come on, it's just a clay model. but it's sort of cute. the little guy is supposed to be almost 6ft tall. Like me.

looking down from the 'southeast'

















from the top:
















that's a loft on the left (west) side,over a part of the kitchen.

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