Building our new house
In early 2006, we were catalyzed to build a new home here at Sacred Groves to expand our residential facilities and community living on this beautiful land.
These new structures, purchased from Oregon Yurtworks will be the heart and hearth of the Sacred Groves community, home for 4-6 residents. Residents will have private space in one of the house bedrooms or in cabins (small yurt in photo). We want to model a "small is beautiful" lifestyle with each person 'downsizing' their personal, private space to less than 300sq. feet. We intend to share cars, kitchen, bathroom and laundry with a commitment to the spiritual and personal growth required for community living.
In Spring 2007, our dream is becoming a reality. We have 'broken ground' for the new house and the foundation is being built with carpenter Tere Carranza at the helm. Watch this blog for progress as the house grows.
Tuesday, February 5, 2008
Things are moving!
I think I've wrestled the wild wires into their proper boxes and twisted the correct wires together so I'm reasonably confident the lights will turn on and the plugs will power things up once the juice is running through the panel. Dennis K stops by at least once a week (sometimes 3 or 4 times!) and adds another degree of order to the wires running to the panel. Thank goodness for incremental progress! Without his help - there would be very little progress indeed on this end of the workscape.
And now that the OTHER Dennis is on site - things are really cooking! He and Sarah and Teagan have whipped out the trim in the Living Room and all the other rooms that have been painted thus far; and while S and T are picking up the pick-up work of finishing some of the trim - Dennis has installed the kitchen cabinets, installed the bathroom cabinet and set the plywood countertops!!
I just installed the marmoleum on the countertops this eve ( oh, what's that...? the Marmoleum is supposed to go on the floor...? ooops....well, I guess we'll have to dance on the countertops ...) - it looks great - and we'll see how well it wears - ( no pics of the marmo yet - but for other pics...)
however - the highlight of the past 2 weeks was the day the toilet was installed. Therese has been waiting for months to get that porcelain goddess into the house . She is determined to get her money's worth out of that septic system ( after all, it cost tens of thousands of dollars!!) and this white throne is the perfect conduit for her appreciation and provides her with deep satisfaction on a daily basis!
posted by Tere # 11:45 PM 