Sculptural Seats

Bill has been making ceramic seats and tables for the studio winter open house Dec. 6th this year. He fires these in the  enormous Takaezu kiln he has run for over fifty years & costs $1,000 in propane to fire once (2 firings required to finish a piece). 

 

Maintaining the studio, producing glazes & buying clay make ceramics this scale a commitment.

Vintage Brass On A Door

I have always had a yellow door and Bill has repainted our most used one. I have polished the vintage brass numbers etc. from these original old doors. As the sun sets, the warmth of it is so welcoming with yellow leaves about now as well.

Solid brass polishes like gold using red rouge on a wheel.

Christian's vintage side door painted "Wooden Shoes" from "Fine Paints Of Europe", and polished hardware.

Old Farm's 308 yr. old front door with a lifetime polished brass door knocker, both "Georgian Period" in design. The door is painted "Moorland Green" from Fine Paints of Europe.

Heating A House

Leif has been heating with one of two Jotul F500 "Oslo" wood stoves, which heats 2,300 sq. ft. with 100% clean combustion. He is now installing new floor radiators & refurbishing his second stove. Cost: paint $40, glass & gaskets $200. The cost new is about $5,000 delivered. 

Photo above the stove is Anders in the backyard Stony Brook Creek.

Christian dug out a crawl space for his new air handler and storage which has poured cement walls, floor and a new fireplace foundation, for his wood burning stove.

Below is the finished recycled brick hearth and stove, still a main source of heat. Bill & Alex drove to Maine to pick up this twice used Jotul F400 (heats 1600 sq. ft.) for $1,000.

Both Christian & Leif supplement their heating systems with beautiful "Runtal" cast iron modern radiators...

On the wall in the solarium and below the kitchen window.

In Leif's kitchen.