This lovely little straw bale building is going to be an art and music studio for Kim Hamilton and Rob Deason, retired school teachers and artists.  It was built by Paul Turner, a local builder who does high quality work.  We were hired to do the clay plastering.

The owners wanted to have a celebration where their friends and family could “have a hand” in the building, so we ran a workparty (or, in this case, a not-very-hard-workparty) for them.  We hand-mixed some clay plaster and everyone got a chance to put some on the wall.

The next week, we started the rest of the base coat.  We have now completed all the plaster on the exterior and both base coats on the interior.  Once all the trim and other interior finishes are done, well will go back and do the veneer/finish plaster on the interior.  I’m really looking forward to seeing this one done: it’s going to be beautiful!

Here is a nice article one of the local papers wrote about the project: http://eastcountymagazine.org/node/7715