I’m dead chuffed with this.

look what we made

Took me and Big a couple of hours yesterday - some experimentation about how best to make the joints and so on, and a fair bit of time with me cutting up bits of straw, but we both had a great time.

And I think I’m in love - how cool is this house? I mean, it’s already got the most important room in there….anyone know of a nice cheap building plot?

This entry was written by Jax, posted on Mon Apr 11 2005 at 12:09, filed under It's life Jim, Making things. Bookmark the permalink. Follow any comments here with the RSS feed for this post. Both comments and trackbacks are currently closed.

12 Comments

  1. Sarah
    Posted Mon Apr 11 2005 at 12:43 | Permalink

    Brilliant dome thing, and yeah, the house looks pretty cool too!

  2. Kath
    Posted Mon Apr 11 2005 at 12:49 | Permalink

    Ooh, lovely. Have you seen Zome kits before? Found them while I was looking for Geomags on this site. There are lots of different levels of kit, this is a medium one. http://www.toymagnets.com/cart/shopper.cfm?action=view&key=ZT003

  3. HelenJ
    Posted Mon Apr 11 2005 at 13:20 | Permalink

    looks great. House is stormingly massive - and also great. Chris and I really would like to live in a cutting edge looking house with all the fixtures, fittings, heating etc well planned by us! Would need more glass than the picture though. I like ligtt, and am not a curtain fan.
    odd that instead we’ve bought victorian, just felt we weren’t up to self building with so many other changes.
    did look at some good sized but also priced plots near huntingdon! have a house on them already to knock down and start from scratch.

  4. Lou
    Posted Mon Apr 11 2005 at 13:22 | Permalink

    Heh Jax, I wanna make one!! Did you use straws and plasticine?? Did you draw the plan first? Cool!!!

  5. Tech
    Posted Mon Apr 11 2005 at 14:02 | Permalink

    Grin we have a plot of land near Huntingdon waiting for the day it can be built on ;0) Maybe we should create a dome on it for when we go visit the rellies!

  6. Gill
    Posted Mon Apr 11 2005 at 16:13 | Permalink

    I love the model - AND the house!

  7. Katya
    Posted Mon Apr 11 2005 at 16:37 | Permalink

    congrats to you both !

  8. allie
    Posted Mon Apr 11 2005 at 18:52 | Permalink

    Love that dome.

  9. karen b
    Posted Mon Apr 11 2005 at 19:57 | Permalink

    Fab dome - I want to have a go with the full size one! xx

  10. Chris F
    Posted Mon Apr 11 2005 at 22:00 | Permalink

    Cool ! 8)

    gonna build a big one now then ? :-)

  11. Jax
    Posted Mon Apr 11 2005 at 22:03 | Permalink

    Already done :)

    Got to have some tea, then will blog it.

  12. Sally
    Posted Mon Apr 11 2005 at 22:15 | Permalink

    I love that house, its got a library ~swoon~ When you build it can I come and stay? ;-)