Varnished Wooden Post and Braces

It was simply beautiful!--smoothen wooden posts and braces in natural varnish supporting a native roof. I was in Rizal, Laguna the other day and I chanced upon this lovely open hut. It's overall impression was refreshing to see.

The wooden posts were unmilled tree timber. They were a great idea. They just cleared them of  nudges and branches and then cut the round timber in four. The one-fourth cuts were used as lateral posts and those with three-fourth cuts were used as corner posts.

The timber surface was smoothen and varnished and used as it is, mounted on a concrete pedestal and secured with machine bolts. Then, the braces were angled at the top supporting the bamboo roof rafter and beams. What really attracted me was how the wood finishing was treated. It looked romantically tropical, refreshing to the eyes and mind after you've been bored by modern city structures.

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We stayed there beneath the hut for 2 days, enjoying the cool mountain breeze freely coming in and out of the open rustic structure. Later, when it was raining so hard on that mountain top, the same hut gave us sufficient cover and warmth.

In the early morning, we were greeted by resident wild mountain birds and some mayas who lived in the nook and crannies of the hut bamboo ceiling. They played around, flying to and fro corners and small openings in the hut. How I wished all house pinoy concepts would have the feature.

Nearby was a huge three-level tree house, also of bamboo and nipa, but no varnish applied. Can we have this in the city? I hope so. These are things that calmed the soul. I hope the senseless cutting of huge mature trees in the city would stop. My friend, Dennis, told me of a recent attempt to cut down another mature mahogany tree somewhere in our area in Project 8 to probably give way to a townhouse or condo construction. Thank God in never materialize.

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Dennis also told of mature Narra trees cut down somewhere just to give way to the construction of a subdivision gate.

I dream of a subdivision of varnished wooden posts and braces supporting nipa structures beside which lay 3-floor tree houses.