ARCHITECTURE
wooden architecture — research, maintenance and restoration

The house belongs to a so-called ‘brus’ type (a solid rectangular log house under a symmetrical double-sloping roof). The living area is a single-level four-wall framework, placed on a high basement (used as the storage area). It is joined with the household area with the antechamber (so-called ‘seni’). The entrance door on the southern facade has a porch with one flight of stairs and a platform supported by wooden posts. There are three windows both on the main and the southern facade of the house. There are two cattle-sheds on the ground floor of the household area, and one of them extends beyond the side wall. The sloping ramp leading to the first floor to the household area is fixed to the side facade.

The log walls are fixed according to the traditional method with the logs' ends protruding from the edges of the walls in the corners (‘v oblo’). The roof, which has preserved some elements of the traditional nailless structure, is rested on a log frame and covered with two layers of planks. The ceilings are located along two side walls and a gable wall. The endings of the horizontal beams supporting the roof are carved in the shape of truncated pyramid. The fascia boards of the household area roof are made of plain boards with scallop carvings along the edges.

The walls are hewed from inside. There is a trap-door in the floor of the living room, opening to the basement, and lumber-room (storage) in the antechamber.