Comments on: Want Your Own Hobbit Home! – Environmentally Friendly Homes

By: Forest

Forest — Wed, 04 May 2011 14:45:21 +0000

It is awesome Nurt Boy

By: Nurt boy

Nurt boy — Wed, 13 Apr 2011 16:40:33 +0000

thats legit as sh*t

By: Forest

Forest — Sun, 02 Jan 2011 16:16:14 +0000

Hi Judith they really are fantastic and if you can pick up the land at a reasonable price and of course get planning permission the dream can become real.

I’m not sure about concrete either but it can’t be that bad, as far as I know it’s not got any chemicals in it.

I had to look up what a yurt was, wow they look fantastic.

Happy new year and thanks for commenting.

By: Judith

Judith — Sun, 02 Jan 2011 15:45:15 +0000

Hello Forest, I just found your site while cruisin this morning with my cat! The hobbit house IS my dream house! I designed one once yearrrss ago…before the Movie. As to recyling concrete. I saw a place once where the property owners had lined their ditches with chunks of it, using it like stones. Don’t know the leeching effects of concrete into the water system…but it was visually pleasing and appealed to my recyling nature. There is a cob house here in my neighborhood and I used to live in a yurt here for awhile. Wonderful space. One thing people need to look into is building codes. There were none here in Oregon until 1990. I will continue to visit your site, now that I have found it. Happy New Year.

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By: Forest

Forest — Tue, 08 Dec 2009 10:29:33 +0000

Ha ha, yes the lottery would sort it!

I don’t play any lottery games either..

No concrete isn’t really that envirofriendly… Unless they could find a way to reuse all the concrete they seem to be knocking down… Like bashing down a housing estate to build a new one (almost the same) on top! Always baffles me…

By: dragonsue

dragonsue — Tue, 08 Dec 2009 06:20:10 +0000

Forest I can’t see anyway in which anything made of concrete could possibly be environmentally friendly!
I think the best thing for me to do is win the lottery and build my own house, and then let him do what he wants! But then I’d have to play the lottery wouldn’t I? lol

By: Forest

Forest — Sun, 06 Dec 2009 09:42:00 +0000

Oh no , You will have to build some kind of half and half hybrid home… With one side all modern and crushing to the local landscape and the other half nice and integrated, both parts could be built to be pretty eco friendly though

By: Sue

Sue — Sun, 06 Dec 2009 02:19:47 +0000

Sadly, when I showed hubby he turned his nose up, and then showed me his ideal home, all concrete and glass! Shock Horror! I married an alien! Well alien to my ideals anyway! lol
I may well go to one of the workshops though, if my health holds up.

By: Forest

Forest — Sat, 05 Dec 2009 13:51:57 +0000

@Sue, Ben was a really really nice guy when I met him many years ago…. So if you could make it to one of his workshops that would be awesome.

These styles of sustainable house are absolutely awesome and it would be great to see these popping up instead of crappy housing developments.