yendor28
05-29-06, 01:58 AM
http://www.housesofthefuture.com.au/hof_houses04.html#couldyou
Living Car Free - cardboard house
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likeakidagain
05-29-06, 12:53 PM
nahhh.
Irather have a tumbleweed house..my dream home! I am serious too.
check it out:
http://www.tumbleweedhouses.com/houses.htm
Irather have a tumbleweed house..my dream home! I am serious too.
check it out:
http://www.tumbleweedhouses.com/houses.htm
PVyrus
05-31-06, 05:42 PM
It doesn't have much to do with bieng car-free (or alternative transportation), but alternative housing is extremely interesting... thanks for posting!
I would love to try something out like that, but even with that base price you'd still have to purchase land, electricity, water, ect. Plus I don't have a car to tow it with!
I would love to try something out like that, but even with that base price you'd still have to purchase land, electricity, water, ect. Plus I don't have a car to tow it with!
nedgoudy
05-31-06, 07:15 PM
nahhh.
Irather have a tumbleweed house..my dream home! I am serious too.
check it out:
http://www.tumbleweedhouses.com/houses.htm
Those Tumbleweed houses are HOT HOT HOT!
I might just retire in one of those and live
as the hermit I have always fashioned myself.
:) :) :) :) :) :) :) :) :) :)
Irather have a tumbleweed house..my dream home! I am serious too.
check it out:
http://www.tumbleweedhouses.com/houses.htm
Those Tumbleweed houses are HOT HOT HOT!
I might just retire in one of those and live
as the hermit I have always fashioned myself.
:) :) :) :) :) :) :) :) :) :)
cerewa
05-31-06, 09:34 PM
Plus I don't have a car to tow it with!
U-haul lets you rent tow vehicles. Renting would be perfectly reasonable considering that if you hook up to electric, water, etc, then you can't be moving the house around all the time.
U-haul lets you rent tow vehicles. Renting would be perfectly reasonable considering that if you hook up to electric, water, etc, then you can't be moving the house around all the time.
Jerseysbest
05-31-06, 09:57 PM
Cardboard? Tumbleweed? Nah, I prefer lightbulbs. www.lightbulbhouse.com
jeff-o
06-01-06, 11:45 AM
Cardboard? Tumbleweed? Nah, I prefer lightbulbs. www.lightbulbhouse.com
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I think those tumbleweed houses are cool. I must say though, that I prefer wide, open spaces. If I were to hitch one up to a pickup truck and haul it to the top of a mountain, that would be about as wide-open as I could get, eh? :D
The designer needs to add some fold-out hammock support beams to the side of the house.
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I think those tumbleweed houses are cool. I must say though, that I prefer wide, open spaces. If I were to hitch one up to a pickup truck and haul it to the top of a mountain, that would be about as wide-open as I could get, eh? :D
The designer needs to add some fold-out hammock support beams to the side of the house.
TuckertonRR
06-01-06, 12:43 PM
Wow...some of those houses on the Tumbleweed site are over $300/sf!! I think I could build a 100 sf house myself for alot less money than $35,000!!!!
mtnroads
06-01-06, 03:21 PM
It costs a lot more per square foot to build small, especially in urban or difficult areas, where I live, we have really stringent building codes, partly due to steep land, seismic requirements and other zoning factors. And very expensive labor costs. So the infrastructure that has to be put in place costs about the same whether you build big or small. Things like retaining walls, reinforced pier and grade-beam foundation, utility hookups, school fees, etc.
In my case, with my steep view lot (currently undeveloped), I have to plan for at least $2-300K in infrastrucure and foundation expenses before even starting on the structure itself (which might cost another $200/sf here due to labor costs). So if I build small like I want to, say 1000sf my cost will end up around $500K, or $500/sf, added to the value of my lot ($500k) and I have a million dollar home that I can't resell. That's why all the spec builders build big, to spread the fixed cost over more square footage.
In my case, with my steep view lot (currently undeveloped), I have to plan for at least $2-300K in infrastrucure and foundation expenses before even starting on the structure itself (which might cost another $200/sf here due to labor costs). So if I build small like I want to, say 1000sf my cost will end up around $500K, or $500/sf, added to the value of my lot ($500k) and I have a million dollar home that I can't resell. That's why all the spec builders build big, to spread the fixed cost over more square footage.
Artkansas
06-01-06, 03:52 PM
Those Tumbleweed houses are HOT HOT HOT!
I might just retire in one of those and live
as the hermit I have always fashioned myself.
:) :) :) :) :) :) :) :) :) :)
As I recall there used to be some houses for dwarves out your way. I had friends who lived in one in the '70s. The houses were tiny and I had to duck to enter the front door. The bathtub was 3 feet long or so, the kitchen counters low and the door knobs were about 2 feet off the ground. I think they were in Monrovia or possibly Sierra Madre, but definitely up near the top of the hills. I was only in the one, but there were supposed to be several around there.
I might just retire in one of those and live
as the hermit I have always fashioned myself.
:) :) :) :) :) :) :) :) :) :)
As I recall there used to be some houses for dwarves out your way. I had friends who lived in one in the '70s. The houses were tiny and I had to duck to enter the front door. The bathtub was 3 feet long or so, the kitchen counters low and the door knobs were about 2 feet off the ground. I think they were in Monrovia or possibly Sierra Madre, but definitely up near the top of the hills. I was only in the one, but there were supposed to be several around there.