The Cornerstone Builders workshop as it goes together.
As the summer of 2003 comes to an end the need for space comes to a head. The collage above shows pictures of the building as it goes up and one of the pictures, if you look close, shows some of the friends and family that helped to put the shop together. They're a little camera-shy though. Freddie, Bev, Keary, Eric, Arnold, Yvette, Donny, Reggie, Lou, Albert, Conrad, Tony, Mary-Lou, Tory, Jaime, Jeff and many other friends and family have stopped by to either give a hand or make sure it was going together properly! It was a lot of fun.
Freddie designed the site layout for the pad, drainage and landscaping. A master of machinery he ran the bulldozer moving the piles of fill he had brought in. The forms be built were an ingenious use of scraps from around the property and recycled building materials (some of which ended up on the roof). With all the planning ahead the concrete poured very easily and soon the building was going up.
We worked day and night to get the roof on and walls closed up before the snow flew. When there was some thinking to be done there was usually a camp fire to sit around and hot dogs or marshmallows for thought food. A good way to use up wood scraps as well.
Angles make a building interesting so we tried to keep the shop interesting. This dormer incorporates a sliding patio door turned on it's side to match the first floor window of the same origin. Recycled building materials made this possible. The garage door and wood furnace came from a job. The two large windows a different job and the window in the gable from a third job. The pine boards used the sheath the roof were seconds from a local mill that Donny, one of Freddie's brothers, works at. He has piles of them and offered as many as we needed.
Now it's time to get to work. You'll have to stop in sometime to see what we're up to. We can put a pot of coffee on to take the chill off and talk wood or world! This is Santa's work shop for a couple of weeks, so you better knock before you enter to give the elves a chance to hide the gifts! If you come on a chilly morning you might get to help cut and stack wood while the wood furnace comes to life.