Teahouse

Although I had completed many carpenter projects, I had never built an entire structure by myself.  Air dried red oak, cut on the place and sawed at a local mill, was piled high in the shed attached to the barn - it needed to be used.  I decided to build a teahouse; not as a place to conduct a tea ceremony, but only  a place to sit.

First, I cut four piers from an old telephone pole, and arranged them so that the building would face south overlooking the new pond.  In construction I used wooden pegs where possible, and counter sunk holes for metal screws covered with oak caps.

Victoria hiding behind the post.

The Methodist Church in Washington had replace the shingles because the fire retardant chemical melted the nail heads and the shingles began falling off the roof.  I gathered a truck load of old, but serviceable shingles, from a stack piled up by the roofers.

The materials used were all leftovers, except for three        sheets of  luan and the pegs. The cedar fence, however, was four figures.

Below is the almost finished structure in the winter of 2006. Next came a  barbwire fence and some landscaping. I'll add a 2011 image, maybe this fall.

More to  come.