Steel Wool, Golden Fleece

muttonheadcollective:

Rustic DIY mansion porn in WAPITI VALLEY, Wyoming. 

 This five-story house was built single-handily over a span of twelve years, without the use of any blueprints. Today the mansion sits empty as the man who built this incredible building, Mr. Smith, fell to his death in 1992 from one of the top balconies.

‘The rambling log structure, with its undulating staircases, umpteen balconies and fun-house warren of half-finished rooms, has for nearly 30 years loomed over the Buffalo Bill Cody Scenic Byway, inspiring stories.’

‘The house’s frame is made from fire-damaged lodgepole pine Mr. Smith cleared from nearby Rattlesnake Mountain after a wildfire, dragging each pole by hand to a horse trailer, then carting them up to the house. Other materials he gleaned like a magpie: wood flooring from a high school gymnasium still sits in the house, awaiting the next project; haunting metal skeletons, Dali-esque contraptions made of scraps, are scattered about. One, a misshapen cage, was for laundry.’

Thanks to Erie Basin for this.