BUILDING THE VARDO: "Tile and Stainless Steel"

These are the rolls of stainless steel sheets we'll be using for inside walls. "Now that's INERT!" Ha, Ha. Thanks for that Leslie, sister MCS tiny homer.

These are the 13 inch terra cotta tiles that will be our floor. The spacers are there for me to decide whether 1/4 inch grout lines or 1/8 inch grout lines will be the choice. Yup, lots of teeny, tiny details in building a home.

VARDOFORTWO folk must be resourceful and open-minded. That line from Judge Harry from the old Night Court sitcom comes back...something like, "Yes, I want to be open-minded, but I don't want to have my brains spilling out." (Punch lines, I'm challenged to remember them, LOL).

Warmer weather and our first Friday night on the town mini-date in a neighborhood diner, Circa in West Seattle, last night have brightened our spirits. "Okay, we're doing this, in the groove...progress. " And before we hitch 'em up and move from the city I had an itching to experience it FOR THE FUN OF IT. We did have a wonderful tea and torte date with minimal anxiety and maximum joy for a full sixty minutes!!

THE PHOTOS ABOVE GIVE YOU A PEEK AT THE TWO NEWEST MATERIALS WE'RE USING INSIDE VARDOFORTWO.

We're on to paint mixing and floor work.

Have some fun today.

Cheers! Mokihana

BUILDING THE VARDO: It's still winter

We woke to a reminder that it's still winter. And, from many places on the Earth, a complete Lunar Eclipse will be visible in the night sky as well. So, here we are in Seattle, being with All the Is taking a few more steps to getting the inside of VARDFORTWO finished and liveable.

Here's what we've been doing:

The walls

• I've ordered a second bunch of organic cotton samples, this time from Near the Sea a great web-store in New Mexico.
  
• Pete is out and about buying a single sheet of stainless steel

Our combined thinking (not over-thinking, thank you) and intuition about the walls goes something like this:

1. Insulate (using staples)with the denim batting we already have. Using the materials we have already purchased makes a lot of sense, and blesses the use of our resources we do have without spending what we don't have. Does that make sense? With prayers to the angels and guardians we attract wise direction ... a magnificent solution!!
   
2. Cover the denim with Denny Foil (use staples and if I sense the need, cover the staple holes with tiny strips of Denny tape) to seal out any smell ~
   
3. Install (using screws) panels of stainless steel as walls. The need for more paint or the possibility that the oak and paint smells could lead to reactions is avoided. Stainless is very easy to clean.
4. Here's where the draping of organic cotton panels could be the beautiful and warming touch over our stainless steel walls. The swatches from Near the Sea cost only 50 cents a piece and they mail through US Post, which is very responsible.

This post is as much a visual affirmation of belief that a magnificent solution is in the making. This journey is about transforming and BE-coming two dears living in our beloved VARDOFORTWO.
This post written while it is still winter is like my weekly Dream Coming True posts in that when I commit to writing the real process of thinking-intuition and action the 'dream' gathers collective love!!!

The sun is brilliant as I finish.

Cheers, have some fun today.