“It looks like something straight out of Middle Earth – and the story behind it is almost as fantastical.
This cottage cost just £150 to build, using only natural or reclaimed materials, and is now rented out for a fee of fresh milk and cream.
And with no mains electricity, gas or water, the bills don’t come to much either.…”
More photos and a video here.
From David Wills
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:
“It looks like something straight out of Middle Earth – and the story behind it is almost as fantastical.
Paid in raw milk.I bet.Oh boy.No FDA.
check out this one
http://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/calgary/calgary-man-lives-in-teepee-despite-freezing-temperatures-1.2453049
this fellow has to be tough, managing this. of course the Native Indians did, but they grew up with the knowledge.
right now, where this fellow is, darn cold. down to forty belwo zero some nights, and tons of snow.
Not to be the spoiler but, Hobbit doors and windows are round. But this is an exquisite bit of work, regardless.