My favorite thing to do when I was a kid was to build huts in the field next door to where I grew up. We would steal scrap wood from the trash piles at any construction site in town, rip the old nails out and it was as good as anything we could get from Home Depot. My mom would take me to the local hardware store to buy nails and that was all I needed to make my super cool plywood playhouse. But it wasn't a play house, those are for girls. It was a hut.
A while back, someone heard of my hut building skills and we signed on to build this hut. That is what we called it, but my huts were much more cozy, and my huts had several floors. Just a stones throw from Steins lodge up on the Deer Valley hill the real estate is a little more fitting for this hut. It did take a bit more brain work and time, and turned out pretty cool too. Design by David Krajeski and Assoc.
The man, myth and legend Kevin Jo figured this one and made it happen. Permit in hand, he drove out to the old wood choppin spot and scored some of the straightest and longest Lodgepole pines he could find. Back at the shop we had to sort through and figure what went where. The roof structure was the most difficult to figure and build, and we actually looked at bringing in a lift or small crane to drop it on the bench assemblies. We ended up lifting it up in 4 different pieces.
We still aren't sure what it is, but it is good looking. I guess you could sit down on the bench if you got tired walking to the front door.
