A Low Impact Woodland Home

[madlookin]

This sit e may have been posted before...i know i've seen pics of this home before....the sites got a small forum thats been spammed more than The Freeman league...but if you check out the older pages...theres some good posts...anyhow...hope its inspiring to someone.

You are looking at pictures of a house I built for our family in Wales. It was built by myself and my father in law with help from passers by and visiting friends. 4 months after starting we were moved in and cosy. I estimate 1000-1500 man hours and £3000 put in to this point. Not really so much in house buying terms (roughly £60/sq m excluding labour).

The house was built with maximum regard for the environment and by reciprocation gives us a unique opportunity to live close to nature. Being your own (have a go) architect is a lot of fun and allows you to create and enjoy something which is part of yourself and the land rather than, at worst, a mass produced box designed for maximum profit and convenience of the construction industry. Building from natural materials does away with producers profits and the cocktail of carcinogenic poisons that fill most modern buildings.


http://www.simondale.net/house/index.htm

[Dolph]

I wonder if Frodo and Sam helped build it

I'd love to live in it

Thanks for posting.

[Digthearth]

He lives 2 minute walk from me

[freemenorthants]

doe he own the land / and are thye helpping anyone to do the same?

[madlookin]

doe he own the land / and are thye helpping anyone to do the same?

the above house was featured yesterday on yahoo finance news

Man builds stunning ‘hobbit house’ for just £3,000

A man has built a hillside home reminiscent of a hobbit house from JRR Tolkien's Lord of the Rings — on a budget of just £3,000.

Simon Dale constructed the woodland home for his family in Wales, taking only four months to fully complete the project with help from his father-in-law. Built with "maximum regard for the environment" it contains a cosy living room, an open-plan kitchen and a split-level bedroom area. The home is also adorned with fairy lights and wooden furniture to complete the look.

"These sort of low-cost, natural buildings have a place not only in their own sustainability but also in their potential to provide affordable housing which allows people access to land and the opportunity to lead simple, sustainable lives," he said.


(rest of the article here)
http://uk.finance.yahoo.com/news/Man-bu ... 84024.html

[madlookin]

check this place out

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=b5F8AgnQUr4

A building in a secret location that could be a house straight from the set of a Lord of the Rings movie.

This is an update of information for the hundreds of you that have emailed me asking for more info about the building.
First off I will not reveal the location as by keeping it secret helps to preserve the building as the more people that know about it the more likely that someone will graffitti or damage it.
That said here are a few answers to some of your questions:
The building is in England.
It was built over a period of several years starting in the 1980's.
It was initally started as a shed for the landowners sheep but over time he continued adding to it as the owner was also an artist.
It was never finished as the landowner never had planning permission for it and the local council stopped him from continuing. As such it is not a building that was ever lived in but the room with stained glass windows was used by the landowner for wine and poetry evenings with his friends.
To give a sense of scale, the doors are normal sized doors. This is not a miniture house, it is full size.
The house was not built for a movie set and has not been in any movie. It was built purely as a hobby and a labour of love.

[losecontrol]

I reckon it's in Kent, as it has an oast house featured roof.
The design doesn't quite do it for me, seems to be @ 2/3rds scale,
and the small sized rocks are somewhat overwhelmingly gaudy.

Have you really had 100's of enquiries about this folly Madlookin?!!

[madlookin]

I reckon it's in Kent, as it has an oast house featured roof.
The design doesn't quite do it for me, seems to be @ 2/3rds scale,
and the small sized rocks are somewhat overwhelmingly gaudy.

Have you really had 100's of enquiries about this folly Madlookin?!!

haha....i've not had one enquiry....i dunno where it is either!...looks like limestone,so could be the Cotswold,i've done abit of dry stone walling in my time but nothing like this.....i like it....its more of a sculpture....although if i'd put that much effort into a building, i'd wanna live in it.

[Tom Bombadil]

Hi madlookin. I cant see the pic. can you post a link?

Also, on the original posters 'Hobbit house', more details can be found on the builder, and the comunity he lives in now. Here; http://www.lammas.org.uk/ecovillage/

[madlookin]

Hi madlookin. I cant see the pic. can you post a link?

Also, on the original posters 'Hobbit house', more details can be found on the builder, and the comunity he lives in now. Here; http://www.lammas.org.uk/ecovillage/

here you go
http://youtu.be/b5F8AgnQUr4

thanks for the other link to...