phillip johnson builds a gingerbread house

well, i really wasnt trying to copy his glass house.  kit just asked me if i wanted to make a gingerbread house, and, if i did, what kind of walls did i need.  over the last 20 years or so, we have made a few basic styles, but this year i thought i would go just a little outside the box and do something a little more modern.  click the photos to enlarge them ...

i had to have some gingerbread so i started with a rectangular back wall with two large windows above the kitchen cabinets.

and then i made an end wall and a door wall with pieces of pine and saran wrap.  at about that point, phillip johnson came to mind and i frittered achoice more than a couple hours coloring my interior walls, building some simple kitchen cabinets, an actual leather covered couch and a spalted maple coffee table.  i even stuck two andy warhol stamps on the walls for colorings.  it was a rainy saturday, ok?

i dont see any majestic wood stoves in the images above, but when i started fooling with the big gumdrops, i just couldnt resist thinking about them ...i remeber them from the 70s ...

there it is below, in the front left hand corner.  if you blow up the picture, (click it) you can see the couch and the coffee table lurking against the far wall.

 all in all, a fun time was had by all, and we got our quota of houses built and bottles of champagne drunk.

 

 you can see the typical concentration level required in the photo below.

    

 ive got one or two more posts in the works and i may get to them before christmas since it will be a four day weekend, but if not, you all have a fine holiday season ...

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Senin, 30 Mei 2016

2012 slide show

12/31 ... should be good now ...
12/30/12   ok ... well try it again ... im not that hip, but it seems like the slide show is in two places.  one is on my computer.  the link i had before may be to my picasa account and not the public one ... please let me know if the new links below work ... thanks !  happy new year ...
12/29/12  i had some comments that my link below wasnt working ... seems fine to me, but if you still have trouble, click the (NEW) link and see what happens ... who knows?  technology. it almost works.https://picasaweb.google.com/115764274297416687617/RecentWork2012#slideshow/5825495116094990786
dont forget the button to start it ...

above is a page of photos from our slide show of some of the pieces we completed in 2012.  heres a link to view the 2012 slide show.  once the window opens hit the slideshow button in the top left hand corner and then you can click through them as quickly or as slowly as you like ...at top speed, it takes about 2 minutes.  all of the photos in this slideshow have corresponding posts about them somewhere in the 2012 section of the blog ...

i have created slide shows for other years in the past.  heres a link that tells you how you can do it.
and here are convenient links to the other years ..
2011 slide show link here

2010 slide show link here

2009 slide show link here

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