Alternative houses

[Unkle_John]

JuJu and I plan on building a dome house in the future that is powered by solar and wind power. Here is the company who we plan on buying from: http://www.domesintl.com/

Check out their product over views and such. It sold me! Plus they are pretty inexpensive, we where going to buy a home that pre-ordered, and the buyers backed out. the house was 1800 sp ft, and it was white (you can get just about any color) and the price: $17,000.

I had the land picked out, but I was still uneasy about doing it. Julie and I have discussed still doing it, we just want to find a better place to put it. A more secluded and better access to a well.
This house is so cool, it's tornado proof, it can withstand a gun shot from point blank and is practically fire proof.

What other homes do you guys find interesting?

[NCW_Woodnymph]

Those are beautiful! What is included for the 17,ooo. Does that include the stair, windows, electrical or plumbing?

My husband and I are hoping to build with cob (a mixture of clay, sand and straw). You pretty much sculpt a home. They are really beautiful and each one is unique. You can you use a lot of recycled products like broken glass,old windows, doors, used lumber and that sort. They also look really great with sod roofs. Anyway, I could go on and on but we're still at the dreaming stage right now.

[CowboyHippy]

i'm not sure where it all moved but we got into domes a bit before it got all rearranged, hopefully when the economy turns around well start building a timberline geodesic. if it wasnt that we'd probably go with a berm house, having a roof would make it a little less efficent but a lot easier to build

and John, i just had a thought. I got to work on the Michigan State basketball team locker room and the mens is a 20ish foot across fot dome in the center, kinda stylized like a basketball, some dumbass engineer thought it up i guess, lots of nifty lights shining up on it. the poor decision of the dome, its smoothe finished fiberglassed and my god the echo. i stood in the center on the terazzo logo on the floor-it's in the myspace gallery- (most of the floor is carpeted) and dropped a wirenut. sounded more like dropping a plastic cup. if those domes are smooth on the inside i's almost consider some sort of texture finish.

just a thought

[Unkle_John]

Yeah I thought about that CH, but I think that after adding walls and furniture there will be less echo. I do want to check out one of those domes in the rough to see how the owners made it work.

There is a really cool article that came out in Mother Earth News (MEN) a few years ago about cob building. What's really cool is that it more natural and you can sculpt on the walls. This house they showed had faces and such carved in the wet walls. Here is the article, check out the image gallery and the last two pics is what I was talking about. http://www.motherearthnews.com/Homesteading-and-Self-Reliance/1998-10-01/From-The-Ground-Up.aspx (http://)

[CowboyHippy]

do a google for canosmose, then have it translated from french


or maybe find an english version of the page somewhere

i didnt look over the page but i remember it from a documentary on legalizing weed, and in the documentary i learned

its made from the very little thc containing hemp and it has whatever special stuff bu tit gets packed and sculpted and when it dries it has essentially the consistency and texture of particle board, it's cheap, very environmentally friendly and i think quite cool looking

[Buffalo Head '75]

Has anyone seen the tumbleweed houses?

very small houses that maximize the space that they use.

very cool.

[NCW_Woodnymph]

Do you have a link?

:hippie:

[Buffalo Head '75]

Do you have a link?

:hippie:

the stupid thing was that I couldn't remember the link and then of course when I found it, well let's just say it was pretty obvious.

http://www.tumbleweedhouses.com/

[Unkle_John]

FAR OUT! I like the Z-Glass.

[Buffalo Head '75]

FAR OUT! I like the Z-Glass.

The Z-Glass is my style too. I am wondering if I can get any kind of financing for this sort of thing. The website offers that the price of the Z-Glass would be around 80-100G's. Plus you need the land.

I kinda like the ones that roll but that Z glass is as big as a studio condo and it is pretty sweet.

I am seriously thinking about looking into it.

if nothing else, once I pay off my condo, I could retire to something like that. Maybe I could afford the land near a lake or something and just stare out those windows at it.

I like those dome houses that Peace Frog posted as well...

and then of course there are yurts....

http://coloradoyurt1-px.rtrk.com/

http://www.rainieryurts.com/

www.yurts.com/

http://www.yurtliving.com/

[Buffalo Head '75]

apparently ... a lot of people are into small houses. check out this...

http://www.resourcesforlife.com/groups/smallhousesociety/

[Buffalo Head '75]

http://www.v2world.net/index_main.html

I have found my future home... I am now thinking that my purpose is to find some land, plop a tiny house on it and live with the most respectful footprint possible.