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Leave it to my friend Paul Michael to figure out how to cut a caste-iron urn in half. You
watched us design and build this house in 150 days, but the work is far from over. We're
about to jump into my favorite part of the process of bringing all this together. Join
me for an exclusive look right here on eHow Home. You may ask why someone would want to
cut a perfectly good cast-iron urn in half. This is a reproduction. Paul is a master of
coming up with great ideas using fragments, and he, actually, was inspired by some Espalier
fruit trees that we have at the farm. And I couldn't bare to through them away and hung
them on the wall. Here, he had some branches made of wire and he wanted to associate them
with an urn and use it in some way as a wall hanging like I had with the Espalier tree.
So he cleverly cut the urn in half as a container for this wire form of leaves to come out.
He put a back of oak behind it. We're trying to workout the proportions of exactly where
the urn fits within the composition. And then, how do we anchor the urn to the piece so it
doesn't look like it's floating. You know, I wonder if this got moved up to here and
then there was another block that sort of gave it just a little bit of weight at the
base, almost like this is resting on it, would be fantastic. Alright. Yeah. Well, what would
the block be, though? I've got some wonderful masonry, maybe a brick or an odd sized piece
of masonry? I would -- I think I would just use another piece of wood almost like it's
a little -- I can draw a picture of it that just where it scrolls. A piece of wood that
then would be the same oak, but it just scrolls back in and meets this. So it scrolls up and
it looks like it's sitting on a plinth. At this point, I'm not sure if it would work
in the cottage and if it did, where it would go. I sure like the form. I'm very attracted
to it. But I'm also not sure about the color because there's some things that you can do
with color that would transform it completely. But, hey, if you wanna know whether it makes
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