We get to take lovely walks around our village regularly and on these walks, we see a many splendid thing.
This post will feature one of those things we get to see in progress; the building of a local home.
These homes are built with mud-packed walls. You can see below how the frame is put up on the ends of these walls. There are men along the top of the wall that are pounding dirt to add to the height of the walls.
They use a carved, large wooden stick that looks like this one below to pound the dirt.
As the layers are added and pounded, a movable frame is elevated too as the height of the wall advances.
A lumber yard is normally located on the property.
After the mud is packed, a hand-crafted wooden frame is added on the inside, along with wood flooring and wall panels. All of the wood is hand-crafted on site.
Decorative wood is also added into the framework and is sequenced as follows.
The building of the home takes several months. I hope to post some more finished pictures of this house as they work on it. Below is an updated photo or two.
The children found some random blocks not far from this home.
Hoping they were not going to be used, the kids decided to build their own structure. Here’s to hope!
