The Shrieking Shack and North Tahoe Lodge

Although I love to show people how to build their own woodland houses I miss building my own. Sometimes I collect materials that are very hard to pass on to my students, especially if they don't do with them what i would have done! With Winter Faire and the Sono-Ma Studio Soiree fast aproaching I decided to selfishly use all this fabulous snow bleached manzanita bone-like wood and ridiculously bright moss I found in North Tahoe recently to build a very sculptural house. Of course I'll have to sell it eventually- I just don't have room inside for such a large house, but it's the building process I love anyway.



My seven year old is a huge Harry Potter fan- already having read his way through book three he wanted me to make him the Shrieking Shack- a 'haunted' two story building in the book. It needed, acording to Ben, a four poster bed, boarded windows, a secret passage, and a staircase. We are still working on the secret passage. i did make sure his little Harry lego man fits, with wand, through the hole in the floor. Eventually we'll put it on an old side table and drill a hole so the figure can escape to and from the Whomping Willow. lol.