Great pamphlet, good drawings and photos, plus some really nice furniture designs. You can scout around on this website for other vintage publications.

https://archive.org/stream/buildingwithlogs579fick#page/32/mode/2up

“…what happens when you mix a retired mathematician father and an old, rotting 1830s cabin? He decided to restore it. And the result? Cozy perfection.…”

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From Jack Fulton

“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

Dan Price’s Hobbit House was featured in our book Home Work in 2004.

“He’s got no wife, no money, but he’s happy in his ‘hobbit hole.’

Dan Price left behind a stressful life as a photo-journalist after his marriage fell apart, and he wound up in a meadow outside Joseph, Ore. He now lives in an underground hutch burrowed into the hillside. ‘I like being able to do what I want to do,’ Price told NBC. ‘I don’t believe in houses or mortgages. Who in their right mind would spend their lifetime paying for a building they never get to spend time in because they are always working?’”

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Photo: NBC News

From Chris McClellan:

 “…the treehouse SunRay built in Portland in a 300 year old fir tree in the middle of a suburb. When one of the neighbors complained and brought out the building inspector he apparently fell in love with it because he told them to take the stairs down and put up a ladder so it wouldn’t be a deck because he had no authority over treehouses that weren’t decks with stairs.”

Chris’ website: https://www.industrialrustic.com/nb/