I'd love to live in a village of this type of house.

[Skidmore]

It would be fabulously fun.

http://www.simondale.net/house/

[The Velveteen Ocelot]

1. Hobbits?

[JHB]

2. "In a hole in the ground there lived a hobbit. ...

... Not a nasty, dirty, wet hole, filled with the ends of worms and an oozy smell, nor yet a dry, bare, sandy hole with nothing in it to sit down on or to eat: it was a hobbit-hole, and that means comfort."

[roguevalley]

15. awesome

[mdmc]

3. yes

kr

[Cool Logic]

4. Looks cozy...kind of small, but cozy nonetheless.

[nashville_brook]

5. it's beautiful! i can smell the baking bread and fresh herbs.

[gateley]

6. It's enchanting! nt

[WinkyDink]

14. Agreed!

[Liberal_in_LA]

7. cute

[Warpy]

8. It's a little too gooey and organic for my taste

but I can see houses made with something like http://www.lightconcrete.com/ with the sod and grass or other plantings on top. Those would tend to hold up better than sod on top of plastic sheeting and the interiors would be a little less hospitable to bugs. Fire resistance would also be a huge help.

[Kennah]

9. Stupid fat, hobbitses lives in the ground, My Precious.

[MuseRider]

10. Love it!

The plans and all, wow.

[Octafish]

11. Wonderful home, theirs! And their next project, as well!

Thank you for the heads-up, Skidmore. It is amazing what can be done with one's hands and what the earth provides.

For more on interesting home designs: http://www.designofhouse.com/

If you like architecture, in general, you may also enjoy: http://www.architizer.com/en_us/

[The Wielding Truth]

12. What an inspirational family! Wonder how sturdy this structure is?

[wundermaus]

13. Most may see this house design as retro but I see this as the future...

of a sustainable lifestyle, if we are smart enough to have one.

[Mrs. Ted Nancy]

16. I hope it has indoor plumbing.

It kinda looks like the seven dwarfs should be living there.

http://1.bp.blogspot.com/-8uMrhjVyUFs/Tc2_i9aalMI/AAAAAAAAAJY/P8cYOuH5jlA/s1600/Snow+White+and+The+Seven+Dwarfs_romadhon_byar.jpg

[pipi_k]

17. Love it...

The heating and cooling costs must be minimal, too.

[Peregrine Took]

18. Me, too. Woudln't it be clever to open up a housing complex of hobbit

houses? Very lush and green just like the Shire.

[KoKo]

19. A house from Grimm's Fairie Tales.....

Not sure...that it's for everyone, though. But, it's pretty cool!

[postulater]

20. I could live there.

[LWolf]

21. I'd love to live on a farm, a few miles outside the village,

in that type of house.

[pinboy3niner]

22. Google 'Hobbit houses' to find more images/websites

There are some of these cottages in Culver City, CA, among other places. I nearly rented one of them decades ago. It was a bit cramped, but everything inside was beautifully hand-crafted.

[sasha031]

23. the house is beautiful

you would love the movie The Ballad of Jack and Rose with Daniel Day Lewis.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Ballad_of_Jack_and_Rose

[prairierose]

24. Check out these house plans....

http://earthbagplans.wordpress.com/

houses that can be built by regular people....


One of my favorite places for dreams...

[lunatica]

25. I'd like to see some sort of structure that catches rainwater and snow

and funnels it into a deep well or container under the house. I'd also like to see skylights for a small indoor crops area.

You could actually make such structures quite large as you would be creating mounds, or digging into the ground. Why limit it to one dome. You could have more domes with more skylights with more snow and water gathering structures.

And it could all look just as cute.

It is very appealing as it is though. But why limit it to homes. How about making schools that look like that and if it was a village then make the courthouse look like that, only bigger.

I like the idea. From the outside it would look a lot like a minimum invasion on the countryside and yet on the inside it would be quite a town.

[OneGrassRoot]

26. Hobbit motel!!!

I want to live in a Hobbit house, too.

:)

But check this out: The world's first Hobbit motel, in New Zealand



http://www.woodlynpark.co.nz/thehobbitmotel.html

[JI7]

27. i have fantasized about that

[Delphinus]

28. Me too!!

Like an earth-berm home.