my dad built a round house back in the 60s and i always thought it was so cool. no corners - i like that. it gives the illusion of more open space. i'd love to live in one. our dome, however, is going to be a studio/workshop. maybe i can convince ed to do this again someday for a home - a dome home.
when we bought our house, we knew we wanted to build a studio/workshop. the design changed from a separate building to an addition and back to a separate building. and from a traditional rectangular pole-barn type construction to the dome.
the place where it would be built on our property changed, too. we eventually came back around to the same area that i had in my mind originally. the problem? trees - and a buttload of them.
what the back looked like before we started - probably october 2006 the logging operation - april 2007
we had a number of large loblolly pines cut down - they were close to 70' tall. they aren't pretty pines like in colorado - the bottom limbs are probably 25-30' off the ground so they are kind of funny looking. and because the wood is so soft, they are not exactly stable trees. they are the first to go in a bad storm and then they take the hardwoods with them. we still have many of them.
unfortunately we also had to cut some hardwoods when clearing the area. i felt bad about that. but they were pretty scrappy trees - didn't get much light with all the loblolly pines hogging the sunlight.our friend chris is a tree guy. he doesn't think any tree is "scrappy." i told him that for every tree we cut down, i'd plant another. so far i'm still behind but i've planted a cherry i saved (that looks like charlie brown's christmas tree but is coming around!) and a variety of willows. the twisted willow especially will be very cool when grown. and i have a number of small oak trees in pots on the deck that chris planted. thanks chris.
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