Guy builds his own sustainable home - for $ 5000. And it looks totally awesome...

That's awesome. I want one. That guy obviously came up with the design right after watching The Lord of the Rings. I had $5000 myself a few weeks ago, I shoulda built a house instead of moving to Hawaii! On second thought, no, definitely did the right thing...

The Witch King is on its way there now...

first time i saw this story a couple days ago he did it for only $3,000 now they're saying $5,000.

inflation sucks.

Shiiiiiireeeee......Baggiiiiiiinnnnnsssss......

What a dump who would live in such a shithole?
Maybe stinky hippies high on weed.

It's beautiful isn't it?

Well I'd love a house like this but if I had to chose between a hobbit style house and living in the paradise that is Hawaii ... that's kind of a no brainer.

Luckily/ sadly I don't have to chose.

Indeed

damn hyperinflation is here.... might be newsreporting that's inflating though

Awesome.
:)

Jealous are we?

I bet you don't even have a girlfriend.

my preeeccciiioouusssssss
come to smegal !!!!
lol

reminds me of the hobbit house
in Lord of the rings.

I want one !!!!
lol

Probably most of your ancestors lived in worse.

I guess I have low standards, because that house seems to be a one-of-a-kind masterpiece. Did you even look at the pics?

It looks cosy and a cute home for Hobbits.

it is 3000 pounds sterling...he's in the UK

Thread: Man builds 'hobbit house' for just £3000

awesome!!

love do it yourself info!!

Thanks Astrochik for sorting that out...

Didn't know there was a thread already, searched for "house" and "5000" ...

It looks great buuuuut, all I can think about are the tons of spiders that would also make it their home.

How did he find a chick that was cool with living in a hobbit shack? That's damn near impossible.

Very impressive looking, sort of looks like a Hobbit house.

I have a fantasy of building my own home.

one day lol

I am female and not savy with tools but I am very creative so I reckon I would be ok.

What is the worst that could happen?

For about 50k we could create our own shire.

Cool place, but I think it was £3,000 GBP originally therefore the conversion is roughly $5,000 dollars

Nice!

I did this in the USA when I lived there. I built my home, very similar for $8,000. BUT. I soon found I could not get home or contents insurance as I did not meet some codes. I then got fined for not getting full compliance to codes. I was fined $25,000 for refusing to get power hooked up, and another $10,000 fine for not using the city sewerage. I was then fined $50,000 in environmental damages due to my septic tank/compost heap. I was fined $20,000 for using solar cells without getting city permission. I was then fined $15,000 for collecting rainwater. THEN I was fined $35,000 for farming my own food. Things just didn't work out for me in the land of the free.

He should have built it with a round door with the knob in the center...

Google for sand dome house or dome home.

[link to calearth.org]

[link to www.youtube.com]

[link to www.earthbagbuilding.com]

It was £3,000 which is roughly $5,000.

you could be raped and killed.

if true this would be a great thread by itself