What would be your dream house?

I love the idea of sustainable living, low carbon foot print and a comfortable technologically advanced, cheap life. Here are some links I find interesting. What's your dream house? Where?

http://www.tumbleweedhouses.com/
https://www.youtube.com/user/earthship
http://www.horizonfuelcell.com/index.htm

 

I think the "tumbleweedhouses" are funny and cute, kinda like the concept but way too small for my needs.

 

yeah they're definitely interesting. my lover thinks I'm insane for even entertaining the idea. Something about it definitely caught my fancy though. I'm amazed you posted... these are like the backwoods of the forum here.

 

I want to live like this: http://thatroundhouse.info/

 

I saw this sometime last year on the Nature of Things.
David Suzuki went to Randy Bachman's house on Salt Spring Island. His house is made up of "rammed" earth. Beautiful house & scenery!

http://www.cbc.ca/natureofthings/buildgreen/index.html
http://www.davidsuzuki.org/NatureChallenge/newsletters/RandyBachman.asp

 

If I'm dreaming, I'd live in an earthship. But DH & I do not have the physical strength/stamina to pound that many tires, nor the finances to pay someone to do it for us.

So our REALISTIC "someday dream" is to build a 600 square-foot passive solar strawbale home in the mountains of CO. This will be after the kids are grown & moved out though, (sigh) so it's a LONG ways off still.
love,
mom

 

Yeah they are really interesting houses and look very neat, still I'd rather build it myself but love the concept. If it wasn't about the kids, but I guess a couple could do it.

I've shown the website to my girlfriend and she said she wouldn't mind about it if you would go on the location where they present the house, you know like besides the mountains. I guess if you own a pickup (but I guess my subaru could do the job) you could have great liberty opportunity.

 

cob probably, or maybe strawbale. small and cozy, open style with a cob fireplace and not too low cielings. i need windows and natural light too.
it would have to be here on the west coast, preferably a nice island like salt spring with community and sustainable values. and i would want a few acres too.

 

yeah I totally agree the prices are a wee bit high for my tastes, plus it's just fun to get your hands into stuff like that. Plans alone are like a grand for his designs. I really like the idea of it though. A nice little house... that you can relocate whenever you want.

For me one of the upshots of that idea is that you can have something like that to live in on site when you're building whatever other house you want to build. Then you could turn around and sell it for a profit most likely if you didn't want to keep it around.

 

A tipi is what I've always wanted fer a home.

 

You could live in one for under $1000
http://www.tipi.com/index.html

 

I did not know they were so affordable, thank you very much for the link.

 

Wow, that is freakin awesome. As close to living off the earth while still living in a house as I've seen. I liked the tumbleweed homes too, especially how they are portable. I've always loved smaller homes...less space for unnecessary 'stuff' to accumulate, for one. And no wasted space.

My dream for a home, though, rather than using natural resources to build from scratch, is actually just finding a small old stone, brick, or wooden cottage with its own well on a little bit of land and converting it to solar.

 

I would love to build a small house of the polehouse designs that can be found here http://www.polehouses.com in recycled timber as much as possible, with a tin roof.

they had something called a "P" pod which I find interesting as an ultra simple modular pole shelter system, If i could get free plans for it and free materials I would mass produce them as a bolt together house in my spare time and give them away to people who want to live free.

 

i'd like to have moomin house
http://i2.bebo.com/024b/9/medium/2007/07/10/12/14537844a4931573542m.jpg
somewhere deep in forest. or near the sea, far away from any big city.
or -if 'far away from any big city' impossible - just small studio in paris. only me and my German Shepherd Dog...

 

This "Hobbit" home
http://www.taunton.com/finehomebuilding/how-to/articles/inside-hobbit-house.aspx
haha

But... if not... what I've always wanted was just a cozy house in a nice, wooded area. Lots of trees.

 

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I'd like a farmhouse...with a barn and a little acreage. I'd like to be able to have a few cattle, a few pigs, some chickens, and a garden. And the time to take care of it. A few cats and dogs. And in the mountains or the black hills would be awesome.

 

I would like a "Green House" (Like the one that Ed Begley Jr. has) in a almost countryside area close to my school as I live an hour and 15 minutes away. It would be big and gated with a pool and big walk around Japanese garden with the view of the sea side.

 

i really like yurts and tipis....