[Strawbale] re Re: faux truth window ?

[Michael K. lough]

>Oi. Just down the road from the  Spanish style SB house that we're  
>building in heavy m> ission influenced central California...

yes you are right, I am wrong, mock tudor is not faux anything is it? mock 
tudor IS mock tudor… No one could possibly mistake mock tudor for a building 
constructed in Tudor England but this faux cordwood I think was created to 
lead the eye to believe that what one was looking at was indeed more than a 
"veneer " and was in fact the genuine article which is of course cordwood or 
was it ? perhaps it wasnt …? we shall obviously never know as who would 
admit to such intended deception or worse to such skill in decoration?

>is one of those faux tudors.

of course not being an expert in American revival architecture I am guessing 
the Tudor you describe is a half timbered sort of thing? Whereas mock tudor 
could not be mistaken for a building from the Tudor reign in England  … but 
faux cordwood could to the untrained eye be mistaken for the real thing  I 
think…



>Looks like it just got dropped there by one of the Close Encounters  
>spaceships.

certainly a tricky effect to pull off …


Michael Lough