Annie Hope wrote:
There are many references to building, but in particular on p.64 of The Long Winter Pa says "Our store building in town is boarded and papered, sided on the outside and ceiled on the inside. It's goodcand tight and warm"
Does anyone know how to translate this into modern building terms of where I would get a description of this building process. I am in New Zealand where stud walls with horizontal weather board outside, steel roofs and plasterboard walls and ceiling inside is the norm. The inside then used to usually have wall paper when I was growing up, but paint is now the norm.
I am guessing this is wide vertical planks outside with thin vertical planks on top along the crack. What about on the inside walls and the roof?
I would make it a sloped half house like the first part of the shanty house in "By the shores of Silver lake", and make it 2 x5m with a loftbed on each side and the ladder rungs on the wall like in "On the banks of plum Creek".
Any other ideas?
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Annie Hope wrote:
There are many references to building, but in particular on p.64 of The Long Winter Pa says "Our store building in town is boarded and papered, sided on the outside and ceiled on the inside. It's goodcand tight and warm"
Does anyone know how to translate this into modern building terms of where I would get a description of this building process.
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