These are process photos for a kitchen project for Dennis
Ross and Angella Gibbons not far from us in Marshfield, Vermont. New Frameworks
Natural Building has built a spectacular, straw bale, timbered addition. I'm
sure good photos of their work will show up soon at their website,
newframeworks.com. I'll post better photos when we're done.
The kitchen part of the project took recycling much
further than usual. For openers, after some repairs, we moved the whole sink
unit, from the old kitchen to the new one. The door panels are birch bark. The
first three units are the original ones, and we built the last two. Actually,
“we” in this case is Ian Maas, who built this entire project, with help from
Todd Krumperman on the install.
This next picture shows the island, and behind it, the
stove wall. The wood for the drawer fronts is cherry that used to be treads
from a staircase that was removed. It was quite a project to gather this wood,
denail it, clean it up, replane it, and so on. The old nail holes and other
blemishes add some character, and make a neat story.
Ian and Todd made a lot of use of the “live edge” of the
old cherry treads. Here that top drawer has a live edge on the bottom. That
thick butcher block top is something Dennis has been storing in a barn for
several decades, waiting for a new purpose. After a lot of sanding and other repairs,
it's ready for some more decades.
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