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Loren designed and built the bed­room with his wife, Libbe, on rural forest­ed land in Lay­tonville, Cal­i­for­nia.<p>For the Mad­sens, both Cal­i­for­nia natives, their wild moun­tain home was a long jour­ney in the mak­ing: In 1970, they bought 40 acres of land in Lay­tonville, three hours north of San Fran­cis­co, and built a communal-living cabin with friends. But moun­tain bliss didn't last for­ev­er, says Mad­sen: \"The hip­pie life was too much work, so I went back to art.\"<p>The pair did time in the big city; first LA, then New York, where Loren Mad­sen's sculp­ture career thrived. In 2005, they decid­ed to sell their SoHo loft (which had sig­nif­i­cant­ly increased in value since they pur­chased it in 1977), a move pro­filed in a 2006 story in <i>The New York TImes.</i><p>They escaped to Cal­i­for­nia and built a house on their 40 acres: a 640-square-foot mod­i­fied kit with­out frills but with all the essen­tials of mod­ern life—a kitchen, bath, tele­vi­sion, com­put­ers. They need­ed more room in a sep­a­rate sleep­ing space, so Mad­sen got to work.<p>As an artist, Loren is always build­ing some­thing—sculp­tures, home improve­ments, and recent­ly, fur­ni­ture. For the bed­room, he began with basic build­ing mate­ri­als: 2x4 fram­ing, dry­wall inte­ri­or walls, a ceil­ing of ori­ent­ed strand board, and an exte­ri­or clad in stained ply­wood. He splurged on four wood-framed, double-glazed doors, a Japan­ese tansu chest, and Shak­er fur­ni­ture. As a builder, Loren has the essen­tials down—basic fram­ing and fin­ish­ing, plumb­ing, and elec­tri­cal skills; he also cred­its his friend Larry and wife Libbe for their build­ing skills and encour­age­ment, respec­tive­ly. 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