While I have enjoyed the open walls and the views through the house, the time is coming to put walls up. This interior work will change the sense of space in the house completely.
I have been wondering how the edges will work. How much of the beam will be covered? What will the boundary between the wood and the plasterboard look like? Will any of the wood of the posts show? We had a meeting last week to talk about it.
And after that, Sasaki-san put it all together in a 1:1 scale mockup.
Basically, the plasterboard walls will be edges with firring strips where they meet the ceiling or upper beam. The posts will be exposed on one edge with thin vertical wood strips on each side to cover the edges of the plasterboard. And the same where the wall meets the floor.
This is the simplest, most affordable, and least fussy treatment. This is what you see in every house around here. It’s true vernacular design. Is it my ideal? Nope. Is it fully acceptable? Yes.
Sasaki-san’s model also showed me the size and scale of some of the other mysteries: the space available for the ranma glass; and the width of the rail that will hold the interior sliding doors. Both are smaller than I imagined.
