Alternative Building
Posted on October 21, 2009 - Filed Under uncategorized | Leave a Comment
I’ve noticed a bunch of folk find my site looking for information on yurts and cool, funky examples of alternative building on the cheap. I’ve got that, for sure, but it’s buried in with the farming and writing and unschooling. I’ve made this introductory page to help you find what you’re looking for.
We’re bootstrapping this operation, (meaning we build a little, save a little $, build a little more….) so we have an ever changing, if a bit strange, compound of many small structures, scattered through our bit of woods. It’s like a patchwork quilt: yurt here, cordwood there, masonry on this one, stick building on that other one…you get the idea.
We’ve use tons of recycled materials, both purchased and scrounged, in sometimes weird and creative ways, because hey, we can’t afford anything else it’s better for the environment! Basically, we’ve made our home out of other people’s junk, and saved a bunch of stuff from going to the landfill in the process. Go, us!
We’ve put up a yurt, and lived in a yurt for many years now. We’ve built a goat house for almost nothing, a tool shed for even less, and a chicken house out of the box the yurt came in. We’ve also recycled an entire tiny house.
2010 will bring a new building to our compound…we’re in the imagining stages at the moment, so stay tuned.
My blog is a bit like my house—lots of different bits, linked by my life. Sometimes a map helps.
All my alt-building posts from the beginning of time:
- the incredible building mash-up
- in which we move in to the recycled house, and are pleased
- poof, another room
- recycled playground
- yurts: the downside
- some principles of recycled building
- calcifer the waterstove
- how to recycle oak flooring
- how to recycle a tiny house, day five
- how to recycle a tiny house, day four, afternoon
- how to recycle a tiny house, day four
- how to recycle a tiny house, day three
- how to recycle a tiny house, day two
- how to recycle a tiny house, day one
- recycling a tiny house
- building the tool shed (2 of 2)
- building the tool shed (1 of 2)
- the TOOL shed
- how to build a yurt (10 of 10)
- a good weekend was had by all
- how to build a yurt (9 of 10)
- how to build a yurt (8 of 10)
- how to build a yurt (7 of 10)
- the solstice from inside a sundial
- how to build a yurt (6 out of 10)
- inside outside guest house
- how to build a yurt (5 of 10)
- goat house tour
- how to build a yurt (4 of 10)
- how to build a yurt (3 of 10)
- how to build a yurt (2 of 10)
- how to build a yurt (1 of 10)
- recycling other people's junk
- bootstrap building
- where it all happens
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