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Post by cabinintheforest on Sept 15, 2010 20:50:57 GMT -5
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louij
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Post by louij on Sept 16, 2010 5:12:24 GMT -5
Eagles Ridge North, that that is a nice region, to go and play in.....teehee ...... will try to get there in the etheric......... soaring....... free, high, in the moonlight...love love Louij
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Post by question on Sept 16, 2010 5:40:05 GMT -5
Nothingness
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Post by cabinintheforest on Sept 16, 2010 14:29:35 GMT -5
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Post by cabinintheforest on Sept 16, 2010 14:30:08 GMT -5
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Post by cabinintheforest on Sept 16, 2010 14:31:08 GMT -5
Eagles Ridge North, that that is a nice region, to go and play in.....teehee ...... will try to get there in the etheric......... soaring....... free, high, in the moonlight...love love Louij yeh it looks great. Where abouts is Eagles ridge north? Is it near Canada? |
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Post by ravenscroft on Sept 21, 2010 17:52:16 GMT -5
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Post by frankshank on Sept 21, 2010 18:30:37 GMT -5
They all look lovely but do pizza hut deliver?
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Post by karen on Sept 21, 2010 20:16:42 GMT -5
My dream house has changed often. But now, my dream home is one that I'm not a slave to some mortgage for decades to pay off. Maybe build one of these:  But I would like high speed internet!  |
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Post by zendancer on Sept 21, 2010 21:37:16 GMT -5
Part of the problem in building such a cabin is finding suitable land at a reasonable price. Another part of the problem is how to protect the investment without submitting to outrageous square footage requirements (as in most subdivisions). With modern building methods, and by limiting the amount of glass to less than 12% of the floor footage, it should be possible to build a home that requires very little heat or cooling, but it is hard to find the appropriate venue for such a project. I'm guessing 900 square feet would be sufficient with 10 foot ceilings (for the chimney effect plus overall sense of space), solar overhangs, and 6" walls with foam sheathing. Now, if we could just find an acre of land with road access adjacent to a national park with running water and nearby trails for less than ten grand......
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waddicalwabbit
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Post by waddicalwabbit on Sept 22, 2010 6:35:06 GMT -5
I've lived in small and large cabins situated in places such as these for the past 34 years. :-) Marblemount, WA (Adjacent to North Cascades National Park), Trinidad, CO (on an 80,000 acre piece of subdivided land), and Yankee Hill, CA (Sierra Nevada Mountains above Chico). I think I had all of them paid off, but they were built to not have a mortgage, you know? Even the most recent one was 4 acres for 50k. Just depends on what you prefer. If you think you can't get out of Los Angeles, then you can't. If you think 80K/year is what you need to get by, then you do. If you think that you'd like to live in the mtns no matter what, then you will find a way to make a living there. I had interenet access at all of these places, through dial up back in the day, ultimately satellite dish and now Verizon Blackberry with a Wilson signal booster tethered to my laptop.
Oh and if you want to buy some property, wait about 24 months and it'll probably be half off of whatever it's listed for today.
Now I live in my 29' RV on Lopez Island in the San Juan Islands in WA, but looks like might be heading South towards the end of Oct.
How come every time you ask Question a question, his answer is nothingness? :-) I'm just kidding. I've seen him write in complete sentences.
Love to ALL of you! Just thought I'd check in.
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waddicalwabbit
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Post by waddicalwabbit on Sept 22, 2010 6:39:29 GMT -5
And i like Raven's but maybe kinda hot in summer. And Karen's earthship house, probably in NM. Most were built with filled tires. There are hundreds of them there. Lotsa labor, but not lotsa money.
And Cabin, if you bisect the US vertically, Tennessee would be in about the dead center of the eastern half
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waddicalwabbit
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Post by waddicalwabbit on Sept 22, 2010 6:41:07 GMT -5
And I LOVE ZD's builder mind! Nice explanation, ZD. It's kinda fun to hear you talk about housing after your long career at 'pouring concrete'.
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Post by karen on Sept 22, 2010 11:54:39 GMT -5
Yeah ZD was building energy efficient homes before people wanted them. Well people still don't want them, but they are getting closer to wanting them than before. I remember when Popular Science would have articles about energy efficient homes that would get me (and my dad) excited, but we'd never actually see them in real life. It was frustrating. But yeah, to build such a home one needs to get out of NIMBYVille and get some vacant land with loose zoning. BTW, has anyone seen these heaters:
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Post by dei on Sept 22, 2010 13:42:55 GMT -5
I wish i knew how to post a pic... my dream home... a log home in the woods which is my home right now... and i love the woods themselves as much or more than the home. Sure wish it were solar powered and off the grid but oh well... we conserve where we can. And have no mortgage thanks to selling the house in Los Angeles just before the bottom dropped out of the market.
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