The Backyard Cottage Company - Tiny House News & Events Tiny house news and events Our Project House Build Update - A Tumbleweed Tiny House Company Cypress 20 The roof on our project house is looking great and we thought it was a timely opportunity to share some thoughts with you about the roof building experience. The front section of the roof and faux dormer certainly add curb appeal to Tumbleweed's Cypress design, but having worked through the process of putting it all together, it raised questions on whether the additional time taken to add redundant features and extra cost with purchasing required materials, versus topping your house with a standard 'gable roof', is actually worth the end result? From a space perspective, adding the sloping front roof reduces the overall room in the sleeping loft. Adding the slope and dormer, turns the gable roof into a type of 'intersecting roof', which itself means addition of 'hips' and 'valleys' to the roof structure and brings its own considerations to both function and cost.
Italian Food Forever - Italian Recipes! The San Francisco Globe When people think of building their dream home from scratch, they probably are prepared to drop a lot of cash to make it a reality. For Steve Areen, however, all it took was $9,000 USD and six weeks to construct his dome abode in Thailand. In 2011, Areen chose to build his home on an organic mango farm in northeastern Thailand. Below are some photos that document the surprisingly quick process. Uploading... With help from his friends, they quickly made progress using a combination of cement blocks and clay bricks. The dome structure cost $6,000 to construct. An additional $3,000 was spent on details, which he lists as the "doors, screens, pond, upstairs structure, stonework and landscaping," in addition to the furnishings. The finished product is a reminder that less can definitely be more, and that a project doesn't need to be expensive to be beautiful.
Rich's Portable Cabins Raised Bed Gardening How To Guide For space efficiency and high yields, it’s hard to beat a vegetable garden grown in raised beds. Raised beds can improve production as well as save space, time, and money. They also are the perfect solution for dealing with difficult soils such as heavy clay. Raised gardening beds are higher than ground level, and consist of soil that’s mounded or surrounded by a frame to keep it in place. One reason raised beds are so effective for increasing efficiency and yields is that crops produce better because the soil in the beds is deep, loose, and fertile. Raised beds also save time and money because you need only dig, fertilize, and water the beds, not the paths.
35 Buildings So Bizarre That You Won't Believe They Exist Engineers and architects are becoming more and more bold with their designs nowadays, and new levels of creativity show up in their creations. The buildings shown below are some of the world’s most unique and unusual structures and show just how creative engineers can be. 1. The Basket Building (Ohio, USA) This is the 7-story corporate office which acts as the headquarters for Longaberger Basket Company, America’s famous basket manufacturer. The building is a 160 times larger replica of the Longaberger’s Medium Market Basket and is one of the landmarks of the Ohio skyline. 2. The world’s first building in motion is designed by Dr. 3. At the time conception the building’s design was considered very controversial, but Czech president Václav Havel remained adamant and hoped the building would become a center of cultural activity. 4. This visitor attraction consists of biomes that house plants from all over the world. 5. 6. 7. 8. 9. 10. 11. 12. 13. 14. 15. 16. 17. 18. 19. 20. 21. 22. 23. 24.
Tiny Homes l Energy Efficiency How to Make a Square Foot Garden | Alberta Home Gardening I’d like to introduce you to a new way of gardening. It’s called square foot gardening. I planted my first square foot garden last year and I’m hooked. Most gardens are planted in long rows separated by three foot aisles. Using the square foot gardening method, you divide a 4′ x 4′ box into sixteen 1 foot square gardens. #1. It doesn’t matter what kind of soil you have, because you won’t be using it. Peat MossCompostVermiculite Just mix these three ingredients in equal proportions and you have the finest soil you could imagine. #2. Yup, that’s right. #3. Your square foot garden takes up only 20% of the space required by a traditional garden. #4. I just built two square foot gardens this spring and here were my costs: Lumber: Free (I used scrap)Vermiculite: $20Peat Moss: $8Compost: $20 Total: $48 for two – $24 each. Of course with your own lumber and your own compost, you could cut that cost down to $14 each. Required Materials Building the Square Foot Garden And there you have it.
Welcome to Clearpoint Residencies uld YOU build a flatpack house? Home in a box costs just £6,500. But is it really as easy to build as an IKEA bookcase? We gave one brave dad a week to try By Tom Rawstorne Published: 23:07 GMT, 29 January 2014 | Updated: 10:17 GMT, 30 January 2014 Like most British men, the sight of a screwdriver and something to assemble from a flatpack sends me into a competitive tailspin. While my chest puffs with machismo, my head is filled with doubts about my abilities. So when I heard that a British company has begun selling a flat-pack mini-house, which is said to be as easy to assemble as an Ikea bookcase, I couldn’t resist the challenge. Scroll down for video A British company has begun selling a flat-pack mini-house, which is said to be as easy to assemble as an Ikea bookcase - and Tom Rawstorne couldn¿t resist the challenge to build it At £6,500, they don’t come cheap, but the company which produces the wooden cabins — tinyhouseuk.co.uk — says that homeowners have been snapping them up. Mark Burton, the company’s founder, says the traditional wooden buildings are being bought by people desperate to acquire more space without moving house. Tuesday
Square Foot Gardening in South Africa | Square Foot Garden Plant Spacing Guides Now that you have your boxes built and the grids put on, it’s quite easy to visualise the plants growing in it. Maybe you’ve decided to have a trellis along the back or on the end of the box for your vine plants to grow vertically. A good idea is to have your vines at the back (or on one end), bigger and bushier plants in the middle and the smaller leaf and root plants in the front so that you don’t have to battle to reach through a big bushy plant to tend to and harvest your middle squares. You can also alternate your vegetable squares with a few companion flower squares to keep the bugs away and to add a bit of colour to your Square Foot Garden box. Marigolds and Nasturtiums make good companion plants and the Nasturtium flowers can also be used to spruce up a salad. Plant Spacing You will see on the back of all seed packets, a spacing guide which usually indicates a recommended ‘Thin To‘ or ‘Final Spacing‘ measurement. Plant Sizes Dividing the Squares & Sowing the Seed
Oregon Cottage Co. This quaint little home is waiting for the person seeking a simpler way of life or is in need of additional space for an office, art studio, guestroom or personal retreat. This well crafted 8'x20', 130 sq ft (habital space) Bungalow is energy efficient and built with sensitivity toward the environment. It has a standard RV utility hook up or can be connected to public sewer and water. It includes a full kitchen, sleeping loft, shower and toilet all built on a 10,000lb GVWR dual axle flatbed trailer for portability. It is priced at $37,000 and has the following green features: Eco-Batt wall insulation (R-16.9 assembly) Landark Natural interior oil finish Locally milled cedar siding Reclaimed wood flooring and interior door SFI certified wood windows Energystar refrigerator/freezer At a starting price of around $22,000 we can also build a "shell-out"option of this Bungalow where we provide a watertight exterior and sound structural framing. "On the road to where your imagination may lead you."