Friday, May 02, 2008

Around the shedworld (updated)

Enterprise Nation has a nice new facelift... The Office in The Garden suggests how to beat the credit crunch... Superclubs has a good suggestion for hardworking homeworkers... Offbeathomes is chatting about blogworking spaces... Dwell blog wonders if the dome is making a comeback... Bldgblog looks at the architecture of ascent... Workology is wondering how hard homeworkers work... Shedblog features the Scouthouse (pictured above) designed around the windows... Treehugger's Wayback Machine revisits a trailer which turns into a house and highlights a telecommuting Radiohead... materialicious focuses on a spectacular double-cantilever barn (pictured below)...Chief Home Officer has some tips for small shedlike atmospheres... The Independent reports on the school pottery teacher who turned a fortune with garden-shed forgeries...
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I've updated the post with a comment on the barn above from regular Shedworking reader Bill Dockery who writes:
"This barn is only a couple of dozen miles from my home. It's in the Cades Cove region of the Great Smoky Mountains National Park and is maintained as a museum specimen by the NPS. The cantilever barn form is native to East Tennessee, and there remain dozens of these structures across the landscape of middle East East Tennessee. Some are a hundred years old or more. A friend of mine, the late Marian Moffett, published a major study on them."

1 comment:

  1. Anonymous2:54 PM

    It's interesting to see cantilever barns turn up on Materialicious and Shedworking.

    This barn is only a couple of dozen miles from my home. It's in the Cades Cove region of the Great Smoky Mountains National Park and is maintained as a museum specimen by the NPS. The cantilever barn form is native to East Tennessee, and there remain dozens of these structures across the landscape of middle East East Tennessee. Some are a hundred years old or more. A friend of mine, the late Marian Moffett, published a major study on them. See http://tennesseeencyclopedia.net/imagegallery.php?EntryID=C027.

    Bill Dockery

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