Week Twelve: Final intensive week

In our last week we finished up a lot of carpentry projects and some stone work: window trim, window bench seat, live edge siding and stone window sills.











In the second part of the week we did finish plaster and clay paint before a whirlwind cleanup and open house on Friday followed by our graduation ceremony.

finished plaster wall


touching up some finish plaster details


Finish plaster over the wattle and daub wall


These are the pigments for the clay paint


This is the truth window (acrylic set into plaster)


After a deep cleaning before the open house guests arrived and touched the fresh plaster walls a little too much...



It was a great summer and a great project! There may be some follow up posts, but the program is done and we've all gone back to our lives outside the Yesterworld- finishing/starting school, old and new jobs, job hunting and farming.

Week Eight: Intensive week

We finished the strawbales and got to put in the interior walls! We used two different techniques: Strawclay and Waddle and Daub.

We finished prepping the strawbale walls for plaster so we had time to start our interior walls! The door is is waddle and daub (see waddle below), and the other bay is strawclay.


The strawclay wall is on the left and the waddle and daub is on the right (no daub on it yet).

Week Five: Intensive Week

This week we developed carpentry skills we learned in week 4 by putting them to use!


One of the rafter trusses. By building a truss instead of using one solid piece of wood for the rater it allows for insulation space (blown in cellulose) and also creates a thermal break allowing for continuous insulation


Scott and Dan put up the rafters while we assembled the on the ground.