Upon reflection, Nitty', I don't see an "easy" way to build it. A plan would be really tough! Standing back and trying to throw it together is likely to cause some real frustrating moments . . . like, just before the entire structure falls over
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I read little book not all that long after I'd left the hinterland. For a brief moment, I was captured by the notion that I could move right back out there into a building put together with cedar shakes, inside and out. I mean, I'd built a log cabin! Something made out of shakes should be easy, right?
Well, I bet it could be easy or, fairly so. And, it isn't such a lunatic idea that the interior paneling could be something similar. Believe it or not, I have a painted wall between the carport and the garage that is made out of wood squares. I don't know what that construction was called. They form a pattern because you can see the grain - so, in a checkerboard pattern, they are turned every which way! The garage must be about 80 years old and the carport isn't all that much newer. I did put a new roof over the whole thing about 5 years ago.
Shakes may be a little difficult to find. I don't know. I understand that you can buy shingles that are only finished on one side. Therefore, they look like shakes but are easier to work with - flat, at least on the house side.
Oh the book, it is called Handmade Houses: A Guide to the Woodbutcher's Art by Art Boericke and Barry Shapiro
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Steve
But seriously, that is some extraordinary carpentry work. Math anyone?
