“The Hobbit House, in northwest Montana, about a three-hour drive from Spokane, Wash., is a guesthouse. Number of units: one. But it is a large unit. The Web site, which the reporter studies before arriving, shows a 1,000-square-foot structure built into a hill, on a 20-acre site dotted with structures that range from small to perfect for squashing with your foot: a four-foot stump-shaped troll house, a few round-door hobbit houses with chimney pipes and several shoe-box-size fairy houses.…”
Definitely weird setup here (maybe Steve should’ve kept smoking pot), but I liked the photo (by Janie Osborne for The New York Times.
Article NY Times Aug 10, 2011 by Joyce Wadler: https://www.nytimes.com/2011/08/11/garden/the-hobbit-house-in-montana.html
About Lloyd Kahn
Lloyd Kahn started building his own home in the early '60s and went on to publish books showing homeowners how they could build their own homes with their own hands. He got his start in publishing by working as the shelter editor of the
Whole Earth Catalog with Stewart Brand in the late '60s. He has since authored six highly-graphic books on homemade building, all of which are interrelated. The books, "The Shelter Library Of Building Books," include
Shelter,
Shelter II (1978),
Home Work (2004),
Builders of the Pacific Coast (2008),
Tiny Homes (2012), and
Tiny Homes on the Move (2014). Lloyd operates from Northern California studio built of recycled lumber, set in the midst of a vegetable garden, and hooked into the world via five Mac computers. You can check out videos (one with over 450,000 views) on Lloyd by doing a search on YouTube:
i could so live there….
That's wonderful
The Tuckerbag
LOVE it! I have long wanted to do an underground house that has hobbit windows like Biblbo's house in the Lord of the Rings movies– lovely!
My father built this home 🙂 I was there for all phases of construction. The picture displayed here is not the actual residence.