the things done on not enough money…
I’ve been poring over Roger Deakin’s Notes from Walnut Tree Farm again. I feel somewhat chastised for my insistence on oak in the interior of the barn (although there’s also beech in the kitchen)…
…converting old barns with as much oak as possible. Oak represents value now and is like gold teeth here: you have an oak staircase, an oak floor, oak bannisters. Yet I can’t help preferring the things an earlier generation of us did on far less money – the things done on not enough money…
Read more – Notes from Walnut Tree Farm
…I told my wife we should have had softwood stairs – I wasn’t trying to be cheap – honest!
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like a bird’s nest be a thing of great beauty
I’m not sure that the barn resembles any kind of bird’s nest, but I do appreciate Roger Deakin’s words on the beauty to be found in the ordinary.
I walk up the field to investigate.
A mystery with my edits.
My Favourite Things ~ Stairs
We invested a lot of money in wood when converting the barn.
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November 6th, 2010 at 7:34 pm
Oak is a wonderful hard wearing wood, and the grain has a lot of character. So your insistence is 100% valid