We. Are. So. Close! The last few weeks of work on the studio have been huge and exciting. Nathan and I have adjusted to a “new way” - one where we actually hire out some big parts of the process. For the last three years, we’ve literally place every brick and nailed every piece of [...]
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studio building - little things and big things
We are in total studio building immersion these days. Despite the tiniest indications of spring, the weather in Vermont has continued to be wintery and cold, adding to the sense that we are in some kind of crazy time-warp where we are always building and it is always winter. We’ve gotten a lot done, though! [...]
studio building - a smooth studio floor
Just yesterday, our studio floor got a whole lot more hospitable to actual pottery making. It wasn’t very long ago, though, that the first floor of our studio looked like this: Yikes. These days, it’s easy to forget how much ledge we worked around to get this building out of the ground! A couple of [...]
studio building - many hands
Things are getting a wee bit warmer in our new studio building! A couple of weeks ago, Nathan and I began the work of fitting rigid foam (a.k.a. “pink board”) into the spaces between our rafters. (The purpose here is three-fold: create a vent-space for our roof, provide the beginning of our insulation, and make [...]
studio building : siding is done*
*And by “done”, we mean “mostly finished for now.” :) The bulk of the ship lap hanging is behind us anyway . . . once the doors go in, we’ll patch around them and call it truly good and finished. A break in the bitter cold weather allowed us to get back outside to work [...]
bitter cold and the thing we said we’d never do
This was supposed to be a post about how we’d finished the siding on our new studio. Instead, it’s a post about something altogether different, something we swore on multiple occasions that we would never do: we made a studio in our house. {very chilly building & very frozen eyelashes} A prolonged and bitter cold [...]
siding in the snow
Winter really is a lovely time to be outside. The skies are gorgeous, the air crisp, the world a little more quiet. We’ve had quite a bit of new snow here lately, and the temperatures dipped way down below zero and then way back up above freezing. We’ve worked through most everything, wearing puffy down [...]
studio building : framing and roofing
Last week was a cold, but very sunny stretch here. We were able to make big progress, nearly completing the diagonal framing, including these beautiful gable ends. (Sort of reminds us of the windows at the Stone Mountain Arts Center!) This past week also brought the installation of our first windows!! We can’t get over [...]
studio building : ten days in
It’s really quite hard to believe we’re only ten days into building. (With wood, that is!) It is amazing what can be accomplished when you combine time, drive, passion, skill, experience, determination - and the threat of impending winter! This past week brought many productive days, during which we put the purlins onto the rafters, [...]
building with wood
With our concrete foundation work behind us (yay!), the structure of our studio is coming together quickly. Just seven days into building with wood, and we’re pleased to say we’ve got rafters up! The pace and intensity of the project has left us with little time for much beyond building, sleeping, laundry, cooking, eating . [...]
