We are finally getting close to completing the foundation for our Barn Build. There are three retaining walls which we build with concrete block (CMUs if you want to be fancy but not cinder block) which was dry stacked and parged with a surface bonding cement. Each footer for the walls is fully rebar-ed and all the block voids will be filled with concrete.
Utilizing advanced framing techniques, building science and a limited budget, we set out to build an affordable living quarters/workspace above an animal barn. We want the building to reflect our existing home's modified Saltbox shape, but of course with our own design and eye for clean lines, functional features while utilize resources our Appalachia homestead provides us.
You'll find this in the beams and columns from Poplar and Black Locust felled at the building site, to locally sawn Hemlock for traditional board and batten siding site finished using the Japanese wood treatment Yakisuki (aka Shou Sugi Ban).
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