Re-Clutter your Life (#Terraintober Immersion marker Project) Part 27 – Charcoal Burners Hut

On 27/10/202124/10/2021 By The OneIn 15mm, Terrain

This Part 27 of a series of a fair few posts, Part 1 (link here) gives an overview and the philosophy applied to the series – cheap, simple and fun. In a previous blog post in thsi series (Re-Clutter your Life (#Terraintober Immersion marker Project) Part 21 – Charcoal Burner) we did a Charcoal Burner, The Charcoal burners would work in shifts and monitor the charcoal burner from a hut, often with a window toward the burner so they could observe it during the night. They came in many different shapes but I found this one inspiration and decided to use this one as a basis for my hut (form somewhere in Sweden, but not sure where exactly). Search on Google using the word “Kolarkoja” and you will find a lot of different huts.

I used this as my base inspiration, key items being the door, a roof above it, the window, the chimney and it all being covered with earth and growth.

I thought I could use one of the Nespresso type of capsules for this project

Cut off the top and clean the inside.

I found it a little bit too tall so cut if off a little bit

Then glued it back and glued it down on a base

Then I used some modelling clay to build up the earth around the hut

Making a few details by gluing coffee stirrers on pieces of nylon tiles or cardboard.

Slowly build up a shape I wanted with a door, a window, a pile of fire wood and a chimney for the burner inside. I also made a slightly different roof than the original picture.

Starting to look good with a little bit of sand

Simple painting the wood as old in grey then added some tufts and static grass, happy!

Spend is still £24.42 in total.

Tomorrow, we will do something else…

/ Hope that was of some interest

8 thoughts on “Re-Clutter your Life (#Terraintober Immersion marker Project) Part 27 – Charcoal Burners Hut”

John@justneedsvarnish

That is brilliant! 🙂 Mr Underhill could live in that!

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27/10/2021 at 4:54 pm Reply
1. The One
  
  Thanks John, he certainly could!
  
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  28/10/2021 at 12:19 am Reply
cstoesen

Another great project. I will try to duplicate your Charcoal hut and burner. Thank you for posting this. Very motivating.

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27/10/2021 at 7:21 pm Reply
1. The One
  
  Thanks, it adds a little bit of unique character!
  
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  28/10/2021 at 12:20 am Reply
Pete S/ SP

That looks great- pairs well with the burner you did earlier- I can see them both set up at the edge of a wood.

Cheers,

Pete.

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27/10/2021 at 10:03 pm Reply
1. The One
  
  Indeed, thanks!
  
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  28/10/2021 at 12:21 am Reply
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