The £3,000 Hobbit house

[spinbaby]

This is way cool. Also, they must have very liberal building codes in Wales.




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[Liberal_in_LA]

1. America has liberal building codes in some rural areas. Cute hobbit house

[poverlay]

2. No sale without the big round door with the knob in the middle. N/t

[ProdigalJunkMail]

4. that would be the whole £3.000 n/t

[xchrom]

3. Kewl. Nt

[MADem]

5. I always thought they should do something along these lines

in tornado country. They wouldn't have to do it like these people, with compost toilets and full-bore solar power, they could do it using some established techniques--real bathrooms, for starters--basically, just dig a big hole, drop a cement box in it, contour the landscape around it to accommodate doors/windows, and put a lawn or a garden on top.

If done correctly, you could mow your roof and have a party up there, instead of having to replace shingles. And you wouldn't have to run to the basement every time a tornado warning came along.

[KittyWampus]

6. that is an intelligent design! And pretty too.

[Vinca]

7. It's kind of hobbit meets earthship. I like it!

[JHB]

8. How many dwarves can fit at the dinner table?

[Fire Walk With Me]

9. I once lived in a place like that but there was this weird ring, begging to be returned to Mordor.

I got outta there pretty quick.

[provis99]

10. I have to admit,

I wouldn't mind living in the Bag End portrayed in the movies. As long as it was sized to fit my 6'2" frame, of course; otherwise I'd be knocking my head on stuff like Gandalf.

[jwirr]

11. In the 50s my father built our 3 bedroom home back into the hillside

with windows in the front and up front side walls. It was tornado safe in tornado alley. It also was surprisingly acclimated to our needs - easy to warm in the winter and very cool in the summer. One problem - back in the 50s no one knew how to control the moisture factor for slab floors and dirt bermed side walls. We needed dehumidifiers.

The house is still standing but needs new wiring and a new roof. It was a traditional stick wood framed house with brick basement.

[Strelnikov_]

12. Mandan

When it comes to energy-efficiency, we are just scraping the surface.