The Archie Bunker

On the topic of concrete...this concrete home is located on the property of design/builder Dave Sellers once of the Jersey Devils. The house is fully poured concrete; all molds were built one of a kind and on-site for pouring. No wolf could possible blow this house down.
What I love about this house is the constant discovery of details. Most homes are predictable, bland, and lack imagination. This house feels built on curiosity. The layout rambles through multilevels of concrete, industrial misfits, peaking windows, hidden doorways, experimentation of shape, overlapping levels, and juxtaposition of raw materials.
This hideaway bed slides out from underneath the kitchen and is ready to use. Obama likes it.





This house is also called the Archie Bunker because, even though it sits on a public golf course, Sellers designed the house to have its own small golf course. It has two holes to hit back and forth to.

Heavy Things

One of the classes I have been looking forward to taking has been last weekend's Concrete Countertops. Ever since I have seen Cemment Design's concrete candle holders, I have wanted to make something similar. A couple years ago I played around with making silicone molds and pouring quick cement in, however I wanted to learn the proper way of mixing and pouring of concrete.

The project for this class was to make a computer desk, shelf, and two coffee table tops for Hostel Tevere in Warren. Luckily for me, there was extra mold materials and concrete so I jumped on the chance to make my candle holder and a benchtop.
Here is Mike, one of our instructors from Stone Soup mixing the concrete. Only in Vermont would you add maple syrup to the cement mixture instead of water.





Here is the final computer table. The top surface is super smooth because of the PETG that we poured onto.
Here is my final benchtop. I am not sure what the actual bench will look like; I haven't gotten that far in my thinking.
Here is the heaviest concrete tealight holder ever.