Mandelbaum/Kahn Straw-bale House (Follow-up)

Forestburgh, NY

SEP.2004

This series of photos (in order: digital, color slide, and black & white film) was taken the day after the house warming party. It was pretty weird to sit comfortably and enjoy the environment on which I had spent so much time working the year before. The last time I had been there was to apply the finish plaster coat; unfortunately I didn't take any photos of that process. See Series 1 and Series 2 for photos of the construction process.

A straw-bale wall with window and book shelves
A gray cat walking on a timber frame beam
Two casement windows in a straw-bale wall
Two sash windows in a straw-bale wall
Straw-bale knee wall with tongue and groove ceiling and skylight
Exposed timbers, straw-bale wall, casement windows, and book shelves
Exposed timbers, straw-bale wall, casement windows, and tongue and groove ceiling
Single sash window in a straw-bale wall, with carved niche to the left
View across tile-floored room to a single casement window in a straw-bale wall
Short claw-foot bathtub on black-and white tiles
A Sandinista doll in a niche, standing on a shelf made of a maple trunk cross-section
Exterior view of a pine-sided house, as seen from the forest
An exposed timber joining a window header in a straw-bale wall
Top left corner of a sliding door frame in a straw-bale wall
A truth window showing the straw behind the plaster in a straw-bale wall