Home Sweet Home
November 9, 2010
Check out this wonderful Hobbit home built a few years ago for $5,000. It is sustainable and cozy!
According to Simon it took about 1500 hours to build over 4 months:
Sustainable design and construction:
- Dug into hillside for low visual impact and shelter
- Stone and mud from diggings used for retaining walls, foundations etc.
- Frame constructed of fallen trees from surrounding woodland
- Reciprocal roof rafters are structurally very easy to do
- Straw bales in floor, walls and roof for super-insulation and easy building
- Plastic sheet and mud/turf roof for low impact and ease
- Lime plaster on walls is breathable and low energy to manufacture compared to cement
- Reclaimed (scrap) wood for floors and fittings
- Other items were reclaimed from “a rubbish pile somewhere”: windows, wiring, plumbing
Notice the “goodnight, moon” in the sky.
Via: Julie Tara
Posted by Joan Spear
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Tags: Hobbit house, Simon Dale, social impact, Sustainable Design, Wales
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