I said earlier that art is a way of living. It's a way of expressing yourself and letting your personality come through in all you do. When you decorate, you show the people who come to your home who you are. When you actually build that home as well, you have even more of an opportunity to express yourself, to put yourself into all the aspects of your home. This is something I did many years ago, and my home not only expressed my artistic nature; it also served to testify to my tenacity and strength of will. In other words, my determination (or referring to my Dutch heritage) my stubbornness. i was determined to have a real home - a house that reflected my personality. Building a log home was definitely an exercise in determination. It took about two years just to get enough done to be able to live in the house; it was not finished by any means, but when you have a construction mortgage, you only have one year to build before you have to start making payments to the bank. So after the first year, we moved from our rented home in Bethlehem into the small 'outbuilding' on our property, a ten foot by sixteen foot log building. That is another story in itself.
So much went into building our log home that I began to write a book about it; like the house, the book will take much longer than anticipated to complete. But I will finish it and I hope to have it published before I build another one. Just kidding... about building another house, that is. Once in a lifetime, if you are not a house builder by profession, is enough. While I am grateful that I had the experience while I was young enough to handle the stress and physical stamina of construction, I would not attempt to go through it all again.
Sadly, divorce separated me from my home about a dozen years ago.
So much went into building our log home that I began to write a book about it; like the house, the book will take much longer than anticipated to complete. But I will finish it and I hope to have it published before I build another one. Just kidding... about building another house, that is. Once in a lifetime, if you are not a house builder by profession, is enough. While I am grateful that I had the experience while I was young enough to handle the stress and physical stamina of construction, I would not attempt to go through it all again.
Sadly, divorce separated me from my home about a dozen years ago.