Comments on: Building With Awareness – A Wealth of Information on Straw Bale Building http://www.comingunmoored.com/2009/06/building-awareness-wealth-information-straw-bale-building/ At last I had mastered the low art of coming unmoored. -- Joe Androe Thu, 20 Oct 2011 00:22:52 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.2.1 By: Grant Wagner http://www.comingunmoored.com/2009/06/building-awareness-wealth-information-straw-bale-building/comment-page-1/#comment-1252 Grant Wagner Thu, 25 Jun 2009 02:51:28 +0000 http://www.comingunmoored.com/?p=2114#comment-1252 In the same vain, I would also like to show you the Phyper's website http://www.solarhaven.org/. They built a 10025 sq ft straw bale home in Arizona complete with a solar electic power, solar water heater, and water based radiant floor heating, all by them selves.....sorta ^_^. In particular, here (http://www.solarhaven.org/StarterStrawBale.htm) about a third of the way down the page, they describe a basic 200 sq ft staw starter home, which they believe can be built by an amature, of completely common materials for as little at $7000 with all utilities accounted for. It was quite a dream they had, which I think many of us share, and they were able, for a short time, to live it. In the same vain, I would also like to show you the Phyper’s website http://www.solarhaven.org/. They built a 10025 sq ft straw bale home in Arizona complete with a solar electic power, solar water heater, and water based radiant floor heating, all by them selves…..sorta ^_^.

In particular, here (http://www.solarhaven.org/StarterStrawBale.htm) about a third of the way down the page, they describe a basic 200 sq ft staw starter home, which they believe can be built by an amature, of completely common materials for as little at $7000 with all utilities accounted for.

It was quite a dream they had, which I think many of us share, and they were able, for a short time, to live it.

]]> By: Justin http://www.comingunmoored.com/2009/06/building-awareness-wealth-information-straw-bale-building/comment-page-1/#comment-1232 Justin Fri, 19 Jun 2009 14:41:06 +0000 http://www.comingunmoored.com/?p=2114#comment-1232 I bought the book and DVD over a year ago and think it's one of the best books on my shelf. The book is small yet with the dvd is comprehensive in the process and planning of buiding a small house. I was particularly interested in this as it's about the size, and of similar construction of my dream house, the one I hope to build in a few years after completing, and living in, my tiny house. As a way to break down such a large task into manageable portions it does very well, but to my mind the best thing about the book is that it doesn't try to tell YOU how you should build a small house, it tells you how THEY built THEIR small house, why they made the decisions they did and what influenced each of them and gives you the ideas to apply that thinking to your own particular situation. I can, and regularly do, recommend it wholeheartedly. J. I bought the book and DVD over a year ago and think it’s one of the best books on my shelf. The book is small yet with the dvd is comprehensive in the process and planning of buiding a small house. I was particularly interested in this as it’s about the size, and of similar construction of my dream house, the one I hope to build in a few years after completing, and living in, my tiny house.

As a way to break down such a large task into manageable portions it does very well, but to my mind the best thing about the book is that it doesn’t try to tell YOU how you should build a small house, it tells you how THEY built THEIR small house, why they made the decisions they did and what influenced each of them and gives you the ideas to apply that thinking to your own particular situation.

I can, and regularly do, recommend it wholeheartedly.

J.

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