Yes, the darker woods, Walnut, Oaks, and Long Leaf Pine dominate the walls, floors, and ceilings, and the Cypress countertop stands out so far, but I may add some milk paints to add light to the kitchen.
Another wood nymph home evolves into its final look, with distinct materials and standout cuts that accentuate the magical grains of trees that were often over 800 years old when cut down. These are the last vestiges of the giant trees that once stood taller than buildings across our nation, felled by saws and tiny men with axes, who destroyed the world’s biggest forests over a couple of centuries. What will humans destroy next? The most remote parts of the world are being harvested for materials to build new structures, while humans waste most of the best resources still in existence from our past, if only we take the time to salvage them.
So much faster to use doors for walls, saving time and labor while getting the benefit of resources no longer available at affordable prices. Tiger Oak is rare enough, but without knots and on such broad spans, I dare say the door was cheaper than the cost of the veneer today. Why not use doors for walls or ceilings instead of Shitrock?
Why not add the beauty of past craftsmanship by men who knew how to create glass and assemble it into windows that would last longer than the creators themselves? Own and preserve a vestige of our past when pride in craftsmanship was greater than the greed that takes the flair out of building now. Using hand-blown glass for the windows enables you to save on the fuel used to melt sand and form it into glass, and on shipping it to you in our modern world. Why not use the beautiful bubbles that were blown and laid flat on a table, once the top and bottom of each bubble were cut off and the sides were split to lay them flat, before they cooled? Most of this work, from digging the coal to stocking the furnaces that melted the sand, was done by kids less than 20 years old, journeymen by 25, dead by 45 from the heat, exposure to gases, and the 364-day-a-year work schedules… virtually slaves at every level it took to create the incredible panes of glass made before 1919.
How much space does one need to find a home for the heart where you can rest, recuperate from the stress of the world, and arise renewed, robust, and ready to make miracles happen? A home of this sort is created from pure cellular tissue from giants, trees that reached hundreds of feet into the sky for centuries longer than the USA has been in existence. Truly, the most ancient trees in America fell victim to industry and saws long before the age of the internet, cars, and big cities were even dreamt about. Now, few learn of what has been lost, or, for that matter, what can still be salvaged, saved, used, and thus preserved instead of letting it go to a landfill to rot.
Over 45% of landfills are for building material waste. Why let this continue when landfills become toxic scars on the planet, ignored for their consequences in the next few decades? Leaching, runoff, outgassing, and other issues can be limited by reducing inputs and salvaging more materials for reuse, recycling, or repurposing. Here is the path to making that happen, demonstrated by Loopholology, a way to save taxes, get longer life benefits, and get more bang for your buck and hours of life lived.
Why not make the most of the world’s great treasures while you can, before they are all gone for lack of understanding their inherent value, both in the form of human energy and productivity? No one can create what I do in the time I do if they create all the trim, doors, and parts I use today. It can not be done as inexpensively or as fast unless you use salvaged material, if you want this sort of quality instead of trash built to fall apart fast, new materials, and house-building methods.
The energy saved by not mining the iron or making the glass, forming the sink, or cutting a single tree to build the entire house, 95% Pure Salvaged Material Building is an ethos proven possible, though few will do it. The point of creating so many examples is to inspire others to carry on and grow the concept of building with the treasures at our fingertips, if we open our eyes to them and incorporate them into our future, rather than discarding the past as worthless.
