Hobbit homes and unusual builds.

A thread for the eco type houses for ideas for folk wanting to go down that route

Dropped on this and first thoughts were a quick and easyish build for a discreet secluded home in a wood.

also found this which I daresay has been on here somewhere

and the Americans

the Swedish

Just add........

Cae Mabon would be my Shangri La, simply just beautiful but the Swedish homes are very small footprint and would fit nicely into a small wood. Such a great playground for the kids as well. Maybe a few tips on there for the Bushcraft group.

Just south of Zoar on the Lizard were large similar structures in badly overgrown woodland which a couple of years ago were uncovered. They were bomb shelters from WW2 according to one local but it looks like this, maybe even the same. Mounds of grass up to 15' tall with brick slit entries.

http://www.cornwalllive.com/ra…05705-detail/story.html#9
I'd driven past for some 40 yrs but had never noticed them hidden among the rhododendrons and fallen trees.

[h=1]After Epic Battle, Real-Life ‘Hobbit House’ is Saved from Demolition[/h]

http://www.goodnewsnetwork.org…is-saved-from-demolition/

[h=1]Our £3,000 Hobbit house: The family home dug from a hillside and built with scraps scavenged from skips[/h]

I just wish some kind landowner would let me have a chunk of land as per this. What is not clear is 'planning', was it obtained or what.

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/new…use-Wales-just-3-000.html

This Charming Cob Home Was Built By Hand For Less Than $250 in Oxfordshire.........

http://www.activistpost.com/20…nd-for-less-than-250.html

“Tony Wrench and his partner Jane Faith are well-known in certain circles. They live in a pioneering roundhouse near Newport in Wales, a picturesque Bilbo Baggins-style property with a frame made of Douglas fir and a roof made of straw which has a chimney poking through. It is called That Roundhouse…”

http://www.theshelterblog.com/living-like-bilbo-baggins/

Cob and thatch

http://izreal.eu/2014/06/25/time-for-natural-building/ Quite an interesting read.

Icelandic turf houses

Glandwr, Pembrokeshire Wales - 25th April 2012

[h=1]£3,000 Hobbit House by Simon Dale[/h]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=h9YamAmDpdk

Holvassgamma, Norway

[h=3]Hofskirkja, Iceland[/h]

[h=3]Finnmark, Norway[/h]

Quote from nomis

and the other end of the spectrum went for £700k last year,
http://www.mirror.co.uk/news/u…home-one-uks-most-8461191

just above Holmfirth.

I nearly put that one in. The seller is president of the British Earth Sheltering Association so it had to be a good one for him..

Geodesic turf house, Faroe Islands

Quote from NomadicRT

Thats what i love about the Hebridean long (black) houses

Saw a couple of those which had been preserved on Uist and watched these guys working on this place, thatching. It was not far above freezing at this time and had snowed a little earlier.
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