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Bedside cabinet that I made out of some spare wood that was just sitting in my shed doing nothing for a long time. It came from my sisters old front door and the doors from an old wardrobe that we used to have when I was a kid.
There is no shortage of talented carpenters and craftsmen in Nigeria. When I needed a table for my studio in Abuja I went to Deidei Lumberyard, there I was able to pick wood from a forest in Ondo State and had my choice of craftsmen right there to build a table with very minimal tools.
To encourage this industry the Nigerian government banned the importation of furniture. A symbolic gesture to appease the poor masses, what are the chances of Akintunde a Danfo driver in Ibadan ordering his new living room furniture from Ikea.
How do you tell the latest big money politician who just had his new castle in Maitama designed by a German/Arab architect, marbles and stones imported from Italy, security doors by American and Israeli companies, appliances and such from South Korea, Japan and Germany. All ideas and materials imported, slave labor courtesy of the Nigerian labor force. The castle is not complete without a Bentley and a Rolls Royce from England to adorn the garages.
How do you tell this dude to have his furniture designed and built in Deidei and not Moda Italian.
Ogbeni Ayotunde
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These are my carpentry skills. I built a pyramid, mainly out of boredom, but I also used cards.
It's funny how humans have an obsession with building structures. I mean, the oldest building structure is Eiffel Tower, according to Yahoo! answers. I love that website. It continues to amuse me that there are people out there who are willing to corrupt the minds of others with absolute lies to their absolutely idiotic questions.
If there's one thing in my life, that I absolutely love, it could easily be the internets. They provide me with many years of enjoyment and enlighten me to the world surrounding us. What annoys me is when people think that because I'm on the internet, I'm talking to friends, or generally bludging. I hate that so much, because it's true. But really, we go to school for x hours per day, but we're in classes and unable to talk (yet do anyway) or we're at some co-curricular organisation that chews up a lunchtime. So really, the only place we have to 'socialise', is on the internets.
But "Welcome to the real world! You don't always have the time to keep up with all your friends". Oh yeah?
Screw you. I will.
Carpentry
Front row L to R: High School medalists—Silver-Anselm Frietsch, DMACC at Newton (Iowa); Gold-Garrett Baumgartner, Greater Altoona Career & Tech Center (Pa.); and Bronze-Ethan Bowden, Uintah Basin Technical College (Utah). Back row L to R: Cody Yax; College/Postsecondary medalists—Silver-Gideon Cyr, Williamson College of the Trades (Pa.); Cooper Khoury, Eastern Maine Community College (Maine); and Bronze-Landon Schneider, Fort Scott Community College (Kan.).
I felt so compelled to merge with "Deek" Diedricksen's uber building gene, after reading his self-published book, that I got out my highlighter pens and helped him out by adding some color to the cover. Printed at a local Ma and Pa printshop, then assembled by hand with a garage sale velo binder, this is a true Do It Yourself venture in bookmaking, financed, he points out, by dumpster diving the trash of others to sell stuff people were too lazy to fix. The marketing he leaves to us micro housing enthusiasts for there is a growing population of would-be tiny home dwellers who can't get enough of this under the wire lifestyle.
Thus Deek's book is important not so much because it is another entertaining zine produced by an overly creative young person, but because he is both fed by a movement and contributing a large chunk to it with his mind bending, Houdini like acts of radically small, home-built shelters.
The casual observer might have suspected that there was a backlash to the decades of MacMansioning, embodied by the books of Sarah Sussanka and her Not So Big House concept, but on closer inspection I was personally aghast that most of these books were about living well in less than 2,500 sq. ft. I beat a hasty path back to books published 20 and 30 years ago for it was there, in the wake of the counter culture movement, that I was first informed of the idea that what held people enslaved to corporate jobs were their mortgages. Thus the path to freedom lay in finding a way to live without one.
The live-lightly-on-the-earth simplicity movement revived this concept, most popularly exemplified by Jay Shafer's Tumbleweed, a tiny house on wheels making the rounds of eco minded publications and fairs. And while Jay argues that $150 per square foot is justified in light of the quality of materials used in his beautiful handmade house, the $10,000 to $30,000 cost of materials, plus copious amounts of time aspiring to such perfection, imposes restrictions on the mind that, practically speaking, have more in common with a mortgage.
Freedom being as much about where the mind can go as how one actually manages to escape the shackles of one's obligations, it shouldn't be surprising that so many are fascinated by the possibility of truly accessible housing even while living comfortably in a suburban ranch. Enter the DIY backyard tinkerer and consummate recycler constructing tiny free houses from discarded pallets and sidewalk trash much like those who convert gas cars to electric while awaiting a more affordable Tesla roadster. Carpentry, however, is the domain of conventional thinking. We all know what a house is supposed to look like. Scores of books fill the need for constructing sheds, playhouses and tree houses that look just like big grown up houses.
Derek's book is a far cry from anything so conventional. He aims to inspire with his ideas, ideas that may well earn his book a place in tiny house history. What he ends up doing is reconstructing the mind into accepting what constitutes shelter. Could I sleep in that I asked myself of several drawings that borrowed quite a bit from Japanese capsule hotels. On the other hand I could certainly build it with the space, time and materials I had available.
Having, himself, been inspired by a copy of "Tiny Tiny Houses" by Lester Walker, which he received for his tenth birthday, he understands the importance of such books at a young age and includes a number of whimsical structures and indoor forts that would appeal to a child builder.
On his website, , the drawing that convinced me to order the book (which he will mail wrapped in recycled cardboard or whatever lying around) was one showing a tree house platform with a ladder enclosed in a shaft so as to have a locked door for security. Such attention to detail, I realized with delight, promised practical follow through that would further my search for a hut I would be able to and want to build.
In the end it is his more loosely worked out ideas that compel my mind to take up pencil and paper to figure out how I could work it up into something I could use. My mind needed the exercise, but my soul needed the freedom of such thinking to expel the limitations of a system that does not aim to set us free. For such an experience at $15.95 (for a limited time only) this book was a bargain.
A window from Glastonbury's parish church of the Christ Child undertaking some carpentry in St Joseph's workshop...
Today, 1 May, is the feast of St Joseph the Worker.
As though the dormer wasn't challenging enough 15 years ago, now he takes on octogan shed with irregular sides
This design features textured backgrounds displaying two materials that embody the construction and woodworking industries. The inside offers ample space for text and photos.
This project involved installation of beautifully honed and chiseled Travertine flooring laid out in the distinctive Versailles pattern. To compliment the flooring, the same Travertine tile was carried over onto the fireplace surround installation. The structural columns in the room and the fireplace surround were finished with custom carpentry installations. Crown molding and baseboards were added and all new carpentry was meticulously prepped and sprayed for a sleek, smooth finish. The final touch in this great room was the installation of the flat screen TV over the fireplace. And just in time for football season!
A carpenter is a person who carries on carpentry, a craft with a long tradition in Norway.
Many believed that the subject would die out, but now there are more most current. Old timber houses are maintained and there are built many new ones.
Old log house in Nedre Svatsum outside the city of Lillehammer.
By Per A. Høyer / coltrain2011
the old stairs was all rotted out and falling down.
Due to the limited space, I mortised the steps into the sides, which makes it extremely strong and durable. Since the space is very dry year round, I decided not to use treated lumber. This yellow pine will last a long time and after a few years will look like an original.