Extreme Birdhouses ( My Collection )

[cranbrook2]

Hi everyone here are a couple more birdhouses done .The first house is for Purple Martins .It is the first time designing one for them .





This second house is made from 80 year old barn wood .It has 20 apartments .





This weekend i am having a 2 day outdoor art show for my houses so i gathered up some of them for a family picture .
This is one third of all of them .

[LinuxRandal]

Wow, those are large enough to pay property taxes on!

[jking]

Wow! Amazing work.

[Pappy]

Some of us have shops smaller than those!

[Anna]

Amazing.

The little girl in me thinks those would make just wonderful doll houses. And, yeah, my shop is smaller than some of those.

[cranbrook2]

Thank you everyone for the nice comments . I know what it,s like to have a small shop too .I need a warehouse .

[lrogers]

I love looking at your work John. when I got back into wood working 8 or so years ago, I had planned on making some bird houses. Hasn't happened yet, but you are providing motivation!

[mater]

They all look great. That is beautiful work.

[jhart]

Do you need building permits for these additions??

[Two Much]

They are wonderful as usual John.


Joann

[radhak]

Looking Good!

This is the first time I am getting a perspective on the size of these birdhouses - because of the pictures with you in them! I had always thought they were much smaller, and wondered how you managed the micro manipulations.

Now I am wondering where you get the space to build and store these!

And of course the time - how much time did any of these take to build, start to finish (pick any of them as an example)?

And, do you sell these? I'd be hard-pressed to accomodate them in my tiny yard, but I guess there'd be others not so constrained?

[cranbrook2]

Thanks again everyone for all the very nice comments . Here is an example for you .I build this house a few weeks ago , it took 2 weeks to build and then my friend took it home and painted the roof and railings last weekend and put it up yesterday .
As much as i hate to see them go people keep asking for them so i keep building them .

This house is 6 ft wide 75" high and mounted 9 ft in the air from the front side an 12 at the back to the bottom of the base .

[Bill in Buena Park]

John,
These are incredible.

The selected 1/3 in the photos - they appear to be of two types: "Manors" and "Castles" Are the Castles, being lighter in color, finished differently or made from a lighter wood than the Manors?

(Also, are these primarily for exhibition, or are the for sale?)

[cranbrook2]

The birdhouses with the lighter cleaner look are planned down and are from a floor out of a barn all 1x6 , 14,000 square ft of it and the other houses are made from the exterior boards but reversed with the grey facing in . They take less time because of the planning.
The large ones i keep for people to see and then i just build more if someone orders one . The smaller houses go fast . Easier to handle i guess .

[footprintsinconc]

just simply amazing. i am in awe every time i see the pictures!