Singing the insulation Blues

Tucked and ruched into the walls, this denim insulation took on a sculptural look.  As we could not do a straw bale house this was the next best thing for us. No harm, no itch and no sneezing! It is comforting to know that we are insulated against the winter cold with blue jeans no less.  

sashiko-a type of Japanese embroidery done with running stitches,
white thread and indigo cloth

Looking at the walls with its inners exposed was a visual treat.  It reminded me of the running stitches on the flat fell seams of jeans, too. 

 I wish I had invented blue jeans. They have expression, modesty, sex appeal, simplicity - all I hope for in my clothes.

  Yves Saint Laurent

dome ceiling in one of the bedrooms

 There is no blue without yellow and without orange.

Vincent Van Gogh

"Pour down your warmth great sun!"

from Walt Whitman's Out of the Cradle Endlessly Rocking

salvaged windows from an old house in Albion (just south of here on the coast)

 

 

Visualize this thing that you want, see it, feel it, believe in it. Make your mental blue print, and begin to build. ~Robert Collier

kitchen area

Whenever I feel blue, I start breathing again.

~L. Frank Baum 

Now the walls are covered with its outer membrane of wood and plaster.  Still the house breathes in the ocean breeze and the cool air taste so clean.  The last layers are coming.  Selection of earth colors for the walls were chosen and it's a wait and see. 

Each time something is done, each stage, each step brings us ever closer to understanding and falling in love with the nature of this one simple house.