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« Remembering the 172nd | Main | There is No Joy In Mudville » 
March 12, 2007 What To Do With an Old Grain Bin?Jules Corriere - Swamp Gravy
Most towns knock them over and put up parking lots and apartments. But in Colquitt, the folks there look at everything as an opportunity to make something new out of something old. There were two old grain bins behind the building which has now been converted into the “New Life Learning Center”, an after school program for kids, which uses art to teach and tutor in every subject. The Grain Bins, which look like short silos, had been sitting empty for years. Someone mentioned that it would be neat to turn those circular bins into round houses. That is exactly what happened. My friend Sally lives in one of them. I have always said, that if the people move out of the bin next door, I wanted to buy it. They are two stories tall, with a slightly winding staircase along one wall. Two bedrooms upstairs are separated with a very large walk-in closet and bathroom. Downstairs is a very good size kitchen, with a long counter for serving and eating meals. The living room is quite large, with another bathroom discretely around the bend. The exterior of the grain bins received a new coat of “Grain Bin Gray” paint, with bright red fire-engine red trim on the small windows. I’m very excited, as in two weeks when I go back to Colquitt to start filming our CPI film production, I get to stay in the grain bin over the weekend. (Thanks Sally.) Sally’s other home is in Atlanta. There’s another building in town I like, and I think is quite cool, but it is too high up for my tastes. We call it the “penthouse” and it is a small building perched atop the peanut silo, about a hundred feet in the air. I took the exterior lift up there last summer, and when it started making a weird noise, I thought I was going to have a heart attack. I can say I’ve been up there, I did it, but leave me with the two story grain bin. If anyone out there has an old grain bin they’d like to convert, I’m sure the people in Colquitt would love to talk to you about it. |
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