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Supposedly they're better now. Does anyone know? Are there any that aren't generic and soulless? We need to build a very small guest house, like a one-room cabin with a sleeping loft. My older son is taking on huge car payments (insert expressions of maternal consternation here) so it looks like he won't be able to move out for a while. Our house is small, with just a thin wall between the bedrooms, even thinner when his girlfriend is over. We're going nuts.

― Beth Parker (Beth Parker), Sunday, 13 August 2006 13:52 (nineteen years ago)

C/D Micro House

― Sir Dr. Rev. PappaWheelie Jr. II of The Third Kind (PappaWheelie 2), Sunday, 13 August 2006 13:59 (nineteen years ago)

beth, beth! geodesic dome time!
or a yurt?

― rrrobyn monsters with heat fever+stroke (rrrobyn), Sunday, 13 August 2006 14:00 (nineteen years ago)

Buy yer kid a tent and tell him to screw his slutty lil' girlfriend out there.

PROBLEM SOLVED

― Domenico Buttez (ESTEBAN BUTTEZ~!!!), Sunday, 13 August 2006 14:04 (nineteen years ago)

Beth, this is my parents' house:

― Danny Aioli (Rock Hardy), Sunday, 13 August 2006 14:07 (nineteen years ago)

for real?

― scott seward (scott seward), Sunday, 13 August 2006 14:08 (nineteen years ago)

yaaaay!

― rrrobyn monsters with heat fever+stroke (rrrobyn), Sunday, 13 August 2006 14:09 (nineteen years ago)

The company that builds these things is here in MS -- they fabricate the sections then assemble them on your site. I don't know what it would cost after including transport to MA.

― Danny Aioli (Rock Hardy), Sunday, 13 August 2006 14:09 (nineteen years ago)

Ah, I see they finally have a website up:
http://www.domesintl.com/index.htm

Hm, about half of the photos at "Interior Details" is of my parents' house. http://www.domesintl.com/interiorl_applications.htm

― Danny Aioli (Rock Hardy), Sunday, 13 August 2006 14:14 (nineteen years ago)

i like the idea that modular homes are built indoors out of the elements. everything is air-tight. beth, you know how long it takes people to build houses around here. your half-built house ends up getting rained and snowed on for months on end. they are cheaper. they put them up quick. they quoted a modular guy somewhere saying, what would you rather have, a professional building your house in a controlled environment or a hungover day-laborer with borrowed tools building your house in the rain. hahahahah! he has a point. i also love how modular guys go out of their way to denounce makers of "stick-built" houses.

― scott seward (scott seward), Sunday, 13 August 2006 14:14 (nineteen years ago)

Maybe one of these? Then turn it into a gardening shed later. The same folks are marketing a home office kit with a sliding glass door.

― Jaq (Jaq), Sunday, 13 August 2006 14:15 (nineteen years ago)

You might check out Rocio Romero's Fish Camp house, starting at $20,000.

Fish Camp

Also go to www.fabprefab.com, a site dedicted to modern modular housing.

― nickn (nickn), Tuesday, 15 August 2006 22:41 (nineteen years ago)

some of the mini-homes i've seen are really nice -- if i were thinking of buying a house i'd get one for sure. some people would balk at living in "a closet," but to me the idea of living small is very appealing.

― you're killing me, larry! (Jody Beth Rosen), Tuesday, 15 August 2006 22:46 (nineteen years ago)

Yes. I agree.

When the world becomes overwhelming, it's better to be in bed with the covers over your head.

― youn (youn), Tuesday, 15 August 2006 22:48 (nineteen years ago)

this was the last thread i tried posting to before the ilx outage.

and i was going to link to fabprefab.com! so many cool buildings. maybe out of price range but, y'know, i don't even know how much regular houses cost to build.

― rrrobyn monsters with heat fever+stroke (rrrobyn), Tuesday, 15 August 2006 22:52 (nineteen years ago)

i am also obsessed with round houses (see: domes, yurts)

― rrrobyn monsters with heat fever+stroke (rrrobyn), Tuesday, 15 August 2006 22:53 (nineteen years ago)

cargotecture!

― jhoshea (scoopsnoodle), Tuesday, 15 August 2006 22:57 (nineteen years ago)

I need to get some more recent pix of the folks' dome. The one above is when it was very new, pre-landscaping. They've added a translucent one (greenhouse) and a very small one (pumphouse for their well).

Every house settles, and the problem with these domes is that when they settle, they can get leaky around the porthole windows. The company is very good about coming out and resealing the windows when that happens, though.

― Danny Aioli (Rock Hardy), Tuesday, 15 August 2006 23:00 (nineteen years ago)

this barn is just down the road from my dad's house

― jhoshea (scoopsnoodle), Tuesday, 15 August 2006 23:01 (nineteen years ago)

Dwell Magazine's been pimping pre-fab modular architecture for the last couple of years, but their idea of affordable and sustainable diverges greatly from mine (upwards of $250/sq ft construction cost).

If I ever move to the country, I'm so getting a geodesic or one of those domes up there. Or a doublewide, that'd be fine too.

― milo z (mlp), Wednesday, 16 August 2006 00:56 (nineteen years ago)

check this:

http://ersson.sustainabilitylane.com/cottage.htm

― gear (gear), Wednesday, 16 August 2006 01:02 (nineteen years ago)

Wow! I never got a chance to get back to this before the outage! I'm going to have to take some time with all these ideas.
I actually proposed the tent idea. Less than enthusiastic response, even though we have two nice platforms in the woods behind the house. Nights ARE getting chilly.

― Beth Parker (Beth Parker), Wednesday, 16 August 2006 01:05 (nineteen years ago)

xp - that's nice, that's real nice.

― milo z (mlp), Wednesday, 16 August 2006 01:06 (nineteen years ago)

I vote for the fish camp. That name says it all.

xpost: jhoshea, where exactly in Vermont does your dad live? I know I've seen that barn somewhere in my travels.

― jim wentworth (wench), Wednesday, 16 August 2006 01:38 (nineteen years ago)

The domes are cool, and look super easy—but the microhouse in Gear's link is exactly what I had envisioned. That one isn't modular. We would have to get out there and actually build it.
That barn is so beautiful!

― Beth Parker (Beth Parker), Wednesday, 16 August 2006 02:27 (nineteen years ago)

the microhouse in Gear's link is exactly what I had envisioned.

it is nice, but i would go even smaller -- there are a few examples in the new issue of time.

― you're killing me, larry! (Jody Beth Rosen), Wednesday, 16 August 2006 02:45 (nineteen years ago)

i don't like the cottages though, they're cheap-looking. the rotohaus and the micro compact home are more my style.

― you're killing me, larry! (Jody Beth Rosen), Wednesday, 16 August 2006 02:49 (nineteen years ago)

one month passes...

We watched TV last night on a mondo home theater in a bona-fide trophy house. A friend's mom's boyfriend's house. They weren't there, and we were like mice scampering around all the giant furniture. There was a sofa that would fill a moving van. Crazy. Not that I could afford such a place unless I left my husband for a Saudi arms dealer, but I wouldn't want it. I don't think the owner wants it either. It's on the market.

― Beth Parker (Beth Parker), Thursday, 12 October 2006 12:04 (nineteen years ago)

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