Thread: Seriously rustic

Jill, Fantastic work. Love how you've carried the theme throughout the home. Brilliant, so inspirational!!!! My personal favourites - the stable door, good for keeping lil knee-hi's out of that room, but you can still keep an eye on them. The bathroom mirror - love the rope, wish I'd thought of that, mind if I use your idea? The circular mirror above the stove - just Superb!!!!!!

Thank you.
RufflyRustic

Thanks, all of you! And Zenwood - not marine grade varnish...linseed oil (raw + boiled) - no problems! Made a door that was out of a huge old railway sleeper, milled on the trusty triton (my husband & I - def. a 2 person job), cut grooves and added tongues, and made the top to open like a barn door, though high enough that no one could see in - natural ventilation for the sub-tropics! My husband did most of the 'work' (as in fixing, chainsawing, etc.) - I just cut almost all the timber (& did a lot of the fitout)- all had to be individually cut to fit the round log top plate. Slow process, but like the look.

As for the conduit - great ideas, as we have similar problem this time in places, being another log frame. Woodlice - you'll be the master of scribing once you finish your place!!! Is that how you'll run your services?

Wendy - trust a woman to note the practicalities of a stable door with little children - and it did work really well for that!! Sure you can use the rope idea! I'm sure I probably saw it somewhere else, too! That's a window behind the stove, sorry - to let light in - just the bright light makes it look like a mirror. Nice to see out while stirring...! Made from 7 individual pieces - 3 cut to the curve on each side, biscuit jointed, and a full circle of ply in centre to match glass size, and all bolted together. (Can I hear some of you perfectionists shuddering?!!)

I built the library in this pic - it has a trunk seat that holds toys, and shelves to fit everything we had at the time in that line.

Seeya,

Jill

Yep, thats how Im planning to do it - at least until I come up with a better idea

I imagine how in awe your kids must be of you both and their wonderful homes. They'll look back with fond memories for their entire life I am sure.

Great work Jill, take a bow, in the words of C J Dennis I dips me lid to you.

Thanks Santalum, & Woodlice - your kids, like ours, after you have built, will probably just think of it as 'normal life'! When we were building our last place, our then 3 y.o. daughter said, "When I am a mum (grown-up), and I'm married to my dad (husband), and we're building our home...." That was the setting for the what she was about to tell me! Just as they don't really stop and think, "But I can't build my wardrobe/bed/whatever..." One daughter, nine y.o. at the time, looked at our ensuite cupboard that we'd just done the carcase and top of (fitted), and said, "I'll build the doors for that". So she measured it up, cut the timbers, and just did it. They were simple external z braced (in the ensuite pic), but she did a great job of them, with minimal help from me.

These pics are - an ironing cupboard I built and a 'Fred Flinstone, eat your heart out' bed that my husband & I built together. The ironing cupboard has shelves in the bottom part, and a folding ironing board (full size) in the top part - works well, and can be kept even in the living area.

Sorry this is taking me so long to download all these - keep having to get off, and most pics had to be downsized.

Cheers,

Jill

One more...the exterior of the stove alcove. My first go at stonework & very enjoyable - used formwork on the inside wall, and small flat-sided stones laid against it as I back-filled with cement. The formwork was pulled down after each 400mm or so of work, and I worked back the green concrete on the internal face with a small stone to make it undulating and get the 'soft' look I wanted. My husband laid the bricks (around a formwork he made), and when I finished the stonework, the inside face was rendered with my own earth render - 6:1:1 Clay/red soil blend (to colour I wanted): lime: cement, to a 'thick pancake' consistency (I AM female - see!!), and put on with a shoe brush - filled any holes/joins in layers as it went! Worked well - even when some stray rain found it's way down the wall. You can see it in the photo behind the stove.

Thanks for your interest, everyone.

Jill

I hope more women realise that they can do it too - taking from your example, Jill. You have become an inspiration to me and mine.

Jill, have to agree 100% with Woodlice, you are an inspiration to me as well.

Cheers & Thanks
Wendy

Thanks Woodlice - we're looking forward to meeting you and yours, one day, too and eager to also cheer you on as you build your home! The bigger the project, the bigger the satisfaction!

Thanks, too, Wendy - it is so nice to meet another lady who enjoys doing this stuff!! Very refreshing! My skill level has a long way to go, but it is great to be on this site and see other's work - we all inspire one another!

Cheers,

Jill

Just awesome Jill - well done and a great family effort by the sounds of things!

Keep the pics coming!

Cheers
Dan

Wow . Now there's a house that oozes character in every nook and cranny . Fantastic effort . It would be a bit rough sleeping on that bed tho.


Peter

great effort ,love the setup around the stove

bit doubtful about the pipes showing over the basin tho

sure wish my wife had as much go
keep up the good work

great effort ,love the setup around the stove

bit doubtful about the pipes showing over the basin tho

sure wish my wife had as much go

keep up the good work

Thanks Dan, Peter and Kiwik - here are a couple of pics of the outside. The family effort is going into another home now - after moving right across Aust.

Peter, it did have a really nice feel about it - very cozy. Oh, and btw, the bed actually sports a mattress - we like rustic, but not roughing it! We finished the bed about 2 days before we left Qld. (when this pic was taken). When the removalists came to do the quotes, I showed them in the shed - pointed out the flitch side rails, bed ends, stack of slats & said, 'That's to go, too - one queensized bed'! When the men this end unpacked the furniture I've built, the comment was something like - "nice bit of gear, but b' heavy", and to my 'see you next time', they said, "Not if we can help it"! At least I built most big items to be shifted in two pieces, and put wheels under most things...being a lady, and knowing that furniture is made to be shifted regularly to follow female decorating urges!

Cheers,

Jill