Cozy Grain Bin Homes | Cozy Home Plans For anyone who lives in farming country, driving past a grain bin may put visions in your head of an unusual and nearly ready-made home just ripe for the picking. Actually, people have built homes out of grain bins and silos using various techniques and styles. Grain bins come in various widths and heights and are used for storing harvested grain. Many of the older silos are standing empty or are being torn down to be sold for scrap. Grain bins can be reinforced and insulated in various ways with typical wood framing, straw bales or even an additional grain bin inserted into a larger bin. You can also purchase a grain bin home plan from Dream Green Homes. This is on our list of things to build when Cozy Home Plans gets more site traffic and sales. Photo by Visit Missouri
Small Cabin - Plan, Build & Enjoy A Small Cabin Sustainable Web Hosting - 10 Sensational Homes Built from Straw | green-building Written by Ryan Hollitz | 19 December 2009 Posted in Blog - Green Building New building materials could really make your house green from the ground up! Straw! :) via [thedailygreen.com] In the classic story of the Three Little Pigs‚ a naive piglet decides to build his home out of straw, which soon gets the huff and puff treatment by a big bad wolf, resulting in the poor little pig's untimely end. Many may wonder why a person would want to build a home made out of straw, but apart from providing a place to hide from the big bad wolf, they have some substantial benefits. Read on to discover just how right that first little pig was to build his home out of straw. Photos: Brett Weinstein/Realty Advocates 1. This unique, beautiful straw bale home in Oakland, California recently carried a $1.1 million price tag. Photo: JD Peterson 2. This gorgeous home, perched on owner Henry Siegel's 2 1/2-acre leafy lot, offers panoramic views and cozy comfort. Photo: University of Bath 3. 4. 5. 6. 7. 8. 9.
Recommissioned Silos - Life In A Roundhouse Free Wood Cabin Plans & Free Step By Step Shed Plans One of the nicest things about a cottage is that it becomes a place for friends and family to gather and share memories. But the cherished kind of memory probably doesn’t include the sound of Uncle Bob’s snoring, or having to step over half a dozen nieces and nephews on your way to a midnight snack. With a bunkie, you can invite overnight guests and still have some privacy at bedtime. When we designed this structure, we envisioned it as suitable accommodation for a couple of adults and three to four kids. Our local building code requires a building permit for any structure with floor space greater than 108 sq. ft. This is a big project, but not a very complex one. FLOOR Footings (six in all) will need to be in place before construction can begin. 1. 2. 3. 4. 5. 1. 2. 3. 4. 5. 6. 7. 8. 9. 10. 11. 12. REAR WALL 1. 2. FRONT WALL 1. 2. 3. 4. and the left side should be 3-1⁄2" past the end stud (this lip will be nailed to the sidewall end stud). 5. 6. 7. 8. 9. 1. 2. 3. 4. 5. 6. 7. 8. 9.
5 Easy to Grow Mosquito-Repelling Plants As the outdoor season approaches, many homeowners and outdoor enthusiasts look for ways to control mosquitoes. With all the publicity about the West Nile virus, mosquito repelling products are gaining in popularity. But many commercial insect repellents contain from 5% to 25% DEET. There are concerns about the potential toxic effects of DEET, especially when used by children. Children who absorb high amounts of DEET through insect repellents have developed seizures, slurred speech, hypotension and bradycardia. There are new DEET-free mosquito repellents on the market today which offer some relief to those venturing outdoors in mosquito season. Here are five of the most effective mosquito repelling plants which are easy to grow in most regions of the US: 1. Citronella is the most common natural ingredient used in formulating mosquito repellents. Citronella is a perennial ‘clumping’ grass which grows to a height of 5 – 6 feet. 2. Horsemint leaves can be dried and used to make herbal tea.
Grain Silo Tiny House This Grain Silo Tiny House is available as a vacation rental at Gruene Homestead Inn. It’s located at 832 Gruene Road, New Braunfels, Texas 78130. A wonderful covered front porch was added. And when you go inside you’ll see the living area, kitchen, bathroom, and staircase that leads you to the upstairs bedroom. Grain Silo Tiny House in Texas Images © Gruene Homestead Inn Learn more: Our big thanks to Kevin H. for sharing this Silo Loft Home through Goods Home Design with us!
How To Build A Sami Hut In Wood The last but very important thing to do is to cover the hut with some protection against weather and rain.I choosed to cover the hut with tarpaper because its easy and cheap, or you can paint the hut directly with tar if you want, but it is a messy project to do that....You can see that i have nailed some ribbons over the tarpaper that this summer will be used to mount some (i have not decided what type yet) outer panel on. That ugly monster you see in the last pic is an experiment to see if the arrangement could store some heat for the night (you make the fire around it), it works, but i will later on test an idea that makes use of self circulating water from an accumulator tank and radiators under the lavas (where you sit and sleep) . Finnished!You are now the proud owner of a unique Sami hut that you can use as a guesthouse or maybe a cool looking sauna..... PS.
6 Alternatives To Bullet Lists Sharebar Bullets make lists of important points easy to read. When those near-perfect little circles are vertically aligned, readers can quickly process the text. Yet too many bullet lists in an eLearning course or slide presentation can be repetitious and mind-numbing. Learners and audiences need novelty to maintain and sustain attention. Here are six bullet alternatives you can create in any graphics program or in PowerPoint. Alternative 1: Use text boxes A simple alternative to a list is to place each item into a a text box that is arranged in a suitable layout. Alternative 2: Let icons do the talking Using the same text boxes as above, this approach adds icons to the words. These icons were found at Iconfinder. You can take this approach one step further by accentuating the graphic more than the words. These icons are courtesy of BuildInternet!. Alternative 3: Let People Speak Your List When you use people cutouts to speak your points, no one will suspect this is a list.
190 Square Foot Grain Silo Tiny Home - Tiny House Living Amazing grain silo home makes living simply look like living the high life. Architect Christoph Kaiser turned a dismantled grain silo, purchased online from a Kansas farmer, into a cozy studio in Phoenix, Arizona. The 190-square-foot space is outfitted with a highly customized interior—only the Eames dining chairs were not made by Kaiser—that serves as a comfortable home for him and his wife.” – Dwell Source: You Won’t Believe the Cozy Home Inside This Converted Grain Silo | Dwell
Build A Low Cost Cabin Six years ago, when I took on the job of operating a biological station in the Allegheny Mountains of Highland County, Virginia, I found myself faced with a serious problem: namely, how to house my family during the summer school sessions. The small private college I worked for had no funds for extra staff lodging ... and our year-round home was in the far eastern part of the state (which meant we couldn't commute to the outpost). What we needed, then, was an "overnight" cabin that the five of us — my wife, myself, our two teenage sons, and our teenage daughter — could build quickly, easily, and inexpensively right on the biological station grounds, and live in during the summer months. Building a Low Cost Cabin I'm pleased to report that we were able to solve our housing problem — and meet our design objectives — quite nicely with the aid of a 16-by-24 foot "modified A-frame" cabin ... one that we built in just five daylight-to-dark workdays at a cost of only $1,000. Day One Day Two
Recommissioned Silos Recommissioned Silos Round houses have been a successful design option for thousands of years. Wind passes around the building and finds no resistance. Round buildings achieve much higher wind ratings than traditional straight edged buildings. Round houses also have less surface area on the exterior making for a home that is easier to heat and cool. Monte-Silo House in Woodland, Utah. The south facing side of above silo house. Bed cubbies in Monte-Silo House in Woodland, Utah by Gigaplex Architects. Curved kitchen in Monte-Silo House in Woodland, Utah by Gigaplex Architects. A silo home with center garage. Local old grain silos become the Abbey Road Farm Bed & Breakfast, “Silo Suites”. Silo home. pinimg.com Staircase in a two story silo house. pinimg.com Silo home in Germantown, NY By architect Michael Altschuler. Silo home in Germantown, NY. Gruene Homestead Inn, Texas gruenehomesteadinn.com 388 sq ft Silo House. CorTen corrugated steel cladding and exposed steel beams on the interior. Yor