Lee: So this is your new floor? God it’s so beautiful! What was the process like?
Johnathan: Well, there’s a long process. Originally, this room was open, it was a balcony… it was a porch balcony. Many years ago we enclosed it. Like five six years ago, we enclosed it and dried it in. So we just had a deck. At the time I didn’t have the funds or interest to do much other than it, so I just put a carpet over it and the room has been in use since then.
Now it was available, so there was an opportunity to make the floor. I removed the deck boards and put a new subfloor down and then put this on top of the subfloor.
Lee: Wow that’s a beautiful.
Johnathan: Worked with my young children, it was fun.
Lee: So skill sharing and working on a project as a family? And it’s gorgeous. And what’s this room going to be?
Johnathan: It’s going to be a bedroom for one of my kids, also just open space, and play space.
Lee Warren is reclaiming wisdom through conscious relating with self, land, and others. She has 25 years of experience envisioning, designing, and living innovative solutions to mutually empowered relationships, land-based food systems, residential community, non-violent communication, and sustainability education. She is the principal and founder of Reclaiming Wisdom, a co-founder of SOIL, School of Integrated Living, and a proponent of regenerative systems, consent culture, and authentic living. Lee is a writer, teacher, and activist, with a passion for embodiment practices, rural wisdom, sustainable economics, conscious dying, and community of all kinds.
