With a new garden that is essentially a blank canvas, I’ve been trying my hand at garden design. This is my first project.
Monthly Archive: August 2011
Aug
17
Jugendraum Conversion, part 2: Building the Walls
The next steps in building our new shower room upstairs involved putting in place the structure of the bathroom. We installed a new vapor barrier, had a window put in, and built the partition walls. We even did some of these things two or three times because it was so much fun the first time …
Aug
12
Garden Cuisine: Berry ice creams
Our weedy little berry bushes keep producing, and this time I include a couple of recipes for ice cream using the berries I photographed for my last post on food from the garden.
Aug
11
Inspiration: Clerestory windows
Since we decided that we’d like some light exchange between the new bathroom and the office, I’ve been collecting photos of clerestory and transom windows that I’ve found around the ‘net. First a gallery of photos from Houzz (sorry about the annoying Ken Burns panning, I don’t have control over that). “Clerestory” originally referred to …
Aug
04
Jugendraum conversion, part 1: Destruction
Over the last couple of months, we’ve been busy with building the new bathroom upstairs in the former Jugendraum, and renovating the rest of the room itself. Our initial plans can be found in this older post. We’ve had lots of new experiences, partially since we, the neophytes, decided to do some of the work …
About the author, this blog, and our church.
Together with my spouse, I bought a redundant church in a somewhat randomly chosen spot in Germany in early 2011 and we are working on making it habitable - and fabulous.
This blog is an account of our conversion adventures. I've also developed quite an enthusiasm for church conversions, and church architecture in general.
The building was built by the New Apostolic Church in the 1970s. It has lots of fundamental architectural features in common with gothic chapels (soaring ceiling, single nave, huge pointed windows, layout, etc.), but expressed using a modernist/post-modernist architectural vocabulary.
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