DODGE HOUSE HOTEL PROJECTS
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Hand Carved wooden sign 4 x 2 foot
Gunsmoke room- Inga has hand painted the
walls to look like 1800's wall paper. Curtains are
handmade including signs.
The outside of this building was design by Inga and
Austin.. Austin Swift is a very talented designer
and builder. This project is still being built.
The original reproduction set of Gunsmoke set,
which was donated by the Ojala Family.
Saloon- walls hand painted to look like 1800's
old world, hand caved sign, display cases. This
took Inga about 5 weeks to complete. The hand
caved skull sign is wood and this project has many
details. You can see this at the Dodge House
Saloon.
Dodge House Santa Fe - Trails End
- in front of the Dodge House Hotel. This is
14 foot high and 100 long. Over 45 deep Rocks
are hand made and painted by Inga and the hand
sculpted horse and rider out of wood, metal and
concrete. The Tree Inga has sculptured out of
wood, wire mesh and concrete. She has started
to hand paint the tree, down to the moss details.
Austin Swift had build all the heavy construction
of this project
Supplies Fact Sheet
used 420 60# bags of quickcrete totaling 7
cubic yards of concrete all literally hand
placed.
20 sheets of 1/2 inch plywood
50-8 ft 2X6 inch treated boards
28 rolls of wire mesh, 3 ft X 40 ft
180 1/2 inch X 7 inch lag screws
15.000 1/2 inch by 2 inch staples
4 rolls of 4 ft X 50 ft 6 mil visqueen
270 # of 3 inch nails
17 gallons of concrete stain
or 1000 gals of Water in the rock making
process.
Still growing
Restaurant- Inga had hand painted the
panels to look like marble. Walls above to
look like 1800's wall paper. Inga designed
and made the curtains along with the box
valence. They also are in the process of
building display cases for the Arvo Ojala
memorabilia family collection.
Meet Slim Bones
Inga had designed and made this prop.
See the details in money, dice and
special effects.
Inga had hand
sculpted the cowboy
and horse. These
were placed in part of
the Sante Fe Trail
Project. Along with
the wagons and many
other props, to show
realistic look of the
old west
get on the email list for the ribbon cutting or watch for the ribbon cutting ceremony
Dodge House Mural Ribbon Cutting
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