“You are looking at pictures of a house that Simon Dale built for his family in Wales. It was built by him and his father in law with help from passers by and visiting friends. 4 months after starting they were moved in and cosy. He estimate 1000-1500 man hours and $5000 put in to this point. Not really so much in house buying terms (roughly £60/sq m excluding labour).…”
Simon’s Hobbit House is featured in Tiny Homes: Simple Shelter. Check out the comments on this website: https://ciracar.com/build-a-house-for-less-than-5000
Ziggy’s Cob Cottage is featured in our forthcoming book Tiny Homes: Simple Shelter. Next year Ziggy is hosting a timber frame workshop in northeastern Missouri. Date: June 10-23, 2012
Location: Dancing Rabbit Ecovillage
Cost: $2,000, 25% deposit
All-inclusive: includes lodging and 3 square meals a day at the Milkweed Mercantile Organic Cafe
Sustainable Design: Build a 300 sq. ft. timber frame house with passive solar design, greenhouse, roundwood porch and balcony.
All timber framing is to be completed using hand tools and traditional techniques exclusively –square rule layout, scribing, etc.
https://small-scale.net/yearofmud/2011/11/22/timber-framing-workshop-2012-build-a-timber-frame-home/
From the Tiny House Blog, worth checking often for anyone interested in the subjext:
“Zol Fox emailed me an interesting article showing some of the logging history of the Northwest and included in the email a couple of pictures of tiny houses built from hollowed out logs.
The size of the trees that were taken down in the Northwest 150 years ago is something impressive. We are not likely to see anything like this in this area ever again. Below I’ve shared a few of those photographs.” https://tinyhouseblog.com/tiny-house/tiny-houses-of-the-historic-northwest/
Here are a few shots from today:
Ford Fiesta Hybrid
Dash Hemp Clothing Co. from Santa Cruz. These are very nice shirts, washed-out colors. There are a lot of organic, green, hemp type clothing stands. Many nice natural-looking women’s’ clothing outfits.
Sitting here at the Green Festival, ran across this little beauty.
https://tinyhouselistings.com/small-rustic-log-cabin-for-sale/
“M&M Timber Framing is a building and design company located in Northwestern Pennsylvania. We specialize in heavy timber beam construction. We design and construct a variety of unique buildings. Whether you are interested in residential homes, or needing barn building and repairs, or looking for a cozy cottage or cabin. We are a company that prides itself in innovative design concepts and constructing structurally sound buildings. Our approach in the building process actually reduces construction time and labor costs, which translates into cost savings for home owners.
We are seeking home owners that are looking for a building and design company that thinks outside the box. Our buildings are rustic and whimsical in design, we encourage home owners to partner with us in the design process. Many agree that the residential home market lacks creative and innovative designed homes. We ask why settle for an ordinary home, when you have an option to build a one of a kind home with us. Contact us.”
https://www.mmtimberframing.com/
Lew discovered this. It stalls periodically, maybe something wrong in the encoding. We found it best to turn off sound and let it load. Once it’s in the cache, you can play it straight through. (Seems somehow fitting that that the electronic world gets garbled around SunRay, who is a magician of the natural world.
Inspired By… SunRay Kelley from Shwood Eyewear on Vimeo.
“Growing up in the wild hills of the Pacific Northwest, it seems like SunRay was always building something. His favorite source of inspiration and materials is the woods around him, “God’s Hardware Store” as he calls it. When working on a project it is not uncommon to see him pick up a saw and head off into the woods looking for the right piece of wood to present itself. If he says anything, he’ll mumble ‘I’m going shopping.’
Filmed by Gary Tyler Mcleod & Austin Will; Edited by Gary Tyler Mcleod”
https://www.sunraykelley.com/
https://www.facebook.com/pages/Sunray-Kelley/112608048761762
Here’s a film of master natural builder SunRay Kelleys homestead in Washington, as shown on MTV’s Extreme Cribs series. MTVs sound track sucks in my opinion, seems like they’re trying too hard to be hip and peppy, but it’s a chance to meet SunRay’s daughter Kumara and see a bunch of his wild buildings. SunRay was featured in Builders of the Pacific Coast.
“You are looking at pictures of a house that Simon Dale built for his family in Wales. It was built by him and his father in law with help from passers by and visiting friends. 4 months after starting they were moved in and cosy. He estimate 1000-1500 man hours and $5000 put in to this point. Not really so much in house buying terms (roughly £60/sq m excluding labour).…”
