Eco-Friendly Home- $5,000
Here’s something you don’t see everyday. Amid all the doom and gloom of the financial markets stretching across the globe, finding a home isn’t the easiest thing anymore. For many young couples, it can easily be even harder to start out their lives together.
One UK couple didn’t let the economy stand in their way, instead- they built their own home. Granted, a feat that is impressive enough on it’s own, what’s more? The home only cost $5,000 to build!
They had wanted to spend as much time as possible at home while their two children were young. Their nearby woodlands ecological management work would have been impractical if they were paying a mortgage.
The home is really cute, and actually considerably easy to build.
It’s all sustainable,and finacially speaking- they’re spending practically nothing on the upkeep and utilities.
Sustainable design and construction:
- Dug into hillside for low visual impact and shelter
- Stone and mud from diggings used for retaining walls, foundations etc.
- Frame constructed of fallen trees from surrounding woodland
- Reciprocal roof rafters are structurally very easy to do
- Straw bales in floor, walls and roof for super-insulation and easy building
- Plastic sheet and mud/turf roof for low impact and ease
- Lime plaster on walls is breathable and low energy to manufacture compared to cement
- Reclaimed (scrap) wood for floors and fittings
Other items were reclaimed from “a rubbish pile somewhere”: windows, wiring, plumbing
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