Sentence examples for stick frame from inspiring English sources

We've just finished pouring basically the same concrete foundation for our straw bale house that we would have for a conventional stick frame house.

"It's way too big for us," Dr. Miller said, gazing over what was still just a stick frame, rising in a race with the colder weather that has already started to settle in here at 6,600 feet on the southern Utah plateau.

You may want to stick frame your roof, cutting and installing rafters and ceiling joists yourself (especially if you want a usable attic space).

While a dome is an efficient shape to heat, you may find that building a dome is less efficient than building a standard "stick frame" home, due to the odd angled cuts and partial use of boards/plywood that was manufactured with a stick builder in mind.

In the south and the west, the totemic emblems were smaller panels of string and down worked on stick frames.

Not far from Mr. James's home at the end of a gravel road, the stick frames of new homes are rising on big wooded lots -- markers of the new breed of rural resident willing to trade long commutes for cheaper land and a slower pace of life.

In Mogadishu alone there are more than 500 camps where families eke out a meagre living under scraps of tarpaulin and cloth supported on stick frames.

"On the 27th of December, 2007, I cast my vote," says Geoffrey Mwaura, who remembers well the circumstances that brought him from his home in western Kenya to this wind-swept collection of tents, with their stick frames and dirt floors.

Popsicle stick frames around pictures of a round-faced boy with messy hair and a smile showing all his teeth.

The inhabitants live in houses of stick frames with mud walls and thatch or corrugated metal roofs.

Talk to your parents, because they'll wonder why all of a sudden you want a stick framed in your room because Harry Potter's wand looks just like it.