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Re: Half-timbered houses
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Wed, 23 Nov 2005 13:47:10 GMT
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In lugnet.build.arch, Sonnich Jensen wrote:
Hi all!

People have been building a specific style of half timered houses (and villages)
for some time now.
Another example is new on BS, which in spired me to write this:
http://www.brickshelf.com/cgi-bin/gallery.cgi?f=77800

All houses seem to be build with the 1st floor of stone, the second floor and up
are half-timbered.
I wonder where this comes from, as a Dane I cannot recoqnise it. Half timbered
houses in Denmark are "full timbered" - like mine:
http://my.tele2.ee/sonnich/lego/build/golden_lion.htm

Walking though an ole place in Denmark would be something like:
http://www.dengamleby.dk/

One of the buildings in that pic has a stone first floor, or so it seems!! So
it's not unheard of.

So, where does this idea come from, that the first floor is made of stone?

I think you ask an interesting question... I don't know why I do it that way,
mostly because everyone else does? Most of the early CCC buildings are done that
way, Dan Siskind's Blacksmith Shop set is done that way, etc. I hope bigger
castle heads chime in with their thoughts too.



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(...) I'm not a medievalist - I'm more of an aesthetic castler (going for the look, not accuracy) - but I did take a trip to England. Most houses were either all stone, or all timber, but there were a few that were half and half. This one for (...) (19 years ago, 23-Nov-05, to lugnet.build.arch, lugnet.castle)

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Hi all! People have been building a specific style of half timered houses (and villages) for some time now. Another example is new on BS, which in spired me to write this: (URL) houses seem to be build with the 1st floor of stone, the second floor (...) (19 years ago, 23-Nov-05, to lugnet.build.arch)

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