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A house filled with odds and ends of carving. Note the layout, typical of houses of this kind: a great room with kitchen, dining corner, and living area below, a sleeping loft above.

Nowadays, if you open any Pottery Barn catalog or "simple living" magazine, you can see what the ecofriendly style has turned into: white aromatherapy candles in bamboo holders, pristine rows of sushi in polished wooden trays, a bizarre fascination with bathing. All of this shiny packaged ecological consciousness comes with the high price tag necessary to convince Yuppies that they are buying a true Piece of the Earth. Everything that was rough and quirky and interesting about the original ecofriendly style has been polished out of existence, drowned in a flood of soothing lavender-scented beigeness.

This obscenity is hereby banished.

[Further commentary to come.]

Three images of a single house.

The images on this page are from Handmade Houses: A Guide to the Woodbutcher's Art, by Art Boericke and Barry Shapiro.