October 13, 2006

A Low Impact Woodland Home and all for 3,000 quid. Warning: link may contain beards
posted by Abiezer_Coppe 18 years ago
  • Awesome, beautiful, and inspiring. Could've used more beard, though.
  • You can boost the facial hair quota at the roundhouse project that our guy links to. Also good for hand-knits and homebrew, and what looks like some egregiously naked roof repair too. But I would love either of the houses.
  • You could live in The Shire in Bend, Oregon.
  • Funny, Abs, I don't see Katie Holmes in any of the pics. But damn those hippies and their environmentally responsible ingenuity.
  • Better take the woodland house, Abiezer, it looks better built than the others. They all have a fine hobbitty look to them.
  • Goddam beards!!!
  • I like to burn mine off with hotel matchbooks.
  • I WANT! I WANT! When we finally get our Monkey commune, we can all have one!
  • OK, I'm moving to a Woodland Home, like, tomorrow. Growing a beard may be a bit of an issue, though...
  • I love these things, I want the inside of mine to look just like Bilbo's house :) (except I need taller ceilings, since I am more gandalf-height then hobbit-height)
  • Love the Woodland hobbitation, especially the ceiling/roof.
  • I stayed up waaaay to late looking at this and linked sites last night. Some of these are really neat--love the glass bottle spiral window inset on the one, but some of these look a little ... hinky. I'm not sure about putting straw bales down as floor insulation-seems like the compaction would be problematic. And some of these places are a tad primitive for me. Look damp and buggy. Adobe is the way to go here. *ponders the idea of taking off all her clothes to go shingle new hay barn, decides not
  • In truth, I'd want to know lots more about more the construction. Questions arise since tying beams and rafters together with twine, as shown in one of the pictures, strikes me as an all too temporary solution to roofing. Think none of these are wired, so computers and refrigerators and so on would be out unless that were remedied. And what about plumbing? Where is a bathtub? Or a kitchen sink? Feel the practical and the picturesque aren't quite in accord here, which is a pity.
  • Bees: They were talking about using a computer, dunno how it was powered. There's a buncha stuff on making an evaporative "refrigerator" on one of the link sites using burlap and two pans of water. I would imagine that climate is much cooler than Idaho's SW desert, so it might work. They did have a picture of the bathtub, and you could barely see the kitchen sink in another. The grey water is run through rushes to act as a natural purification sink. The "black water" is taken care of in a composting toilet. They did mention that the compost was removed every two years and used. Ick. Maybe if you spread it on a hay field or something.
  • Grey water and black water wouldn't be my worry as much as the water intake. One memorable winter here about 30 years ago we had no water at all (four-foot pipeline froze solid despite being buried, after which our water company just wrung its collective hands and waited for the spring thaw) so we had to truck water in for us and the horses for three backbreaking and miserable months. That's when I decided to get all the old wells here operative again, and our two old windmills running, so at least the horses can be watered without inconvenience and major backstrain.
  • The poncho lady looks happy.
  • I think she's a witch. We should burn her just to be sure.
  • Why build an eco-village? Why not just go secular-Amish? Solar panels, schmolar panels...