If Obama/Romney Are President – We Could Be Living Like This!

Check out this website for an example of a house that has minimal impact on society and must cost next to nothing to run.

I am not sure…..
if the builder has gone too far, personally I have more faith in mankind to come up with alternative solutions to the supposedly depleting natural resources but just in case….

You are looking at pictures of a house I built for our family in Wales. It was built by myself and my father in law with help from passers by and visiting friends. 4 months after starting we were moved in and cosy. I estimate 1000-1500 man hours and £3000 put in to this point. Not really so much in house buying terms (roughly £60/sq m excluding labour).

The house was built with maximum regard for the environment and by reciprocation gives us a unique opportunity to live close to nature. Being your own (have a go) architect is a lot of fun and allows you to create and enjoy something which is part of yourself and the land rather than, at worst, a mass produced box designed for maximum profit and convenience of the construction industry. Building from natural materials does away with producers profits and the cocktail of carcinogenic poisons that fill most modern buildings.

But if you’re looking for something a little more modern but a house that is still cheap to buy (before assembly at least) this is also interesting.

Warm, comfortable, beautiful, ecological house. Your house.

Many European families, especially the young ones, dream about a house like this.

As usually, there are many opportunities.

The easiest way is to buy an already built house.

Benefits of this way are evident, but there are drawbacks as well. The first one is, of course, the price. Secondly, a bought house most probably will not be hundred percent just like you personally imagine it. And finally, houses that were built quite a time ago usually do not correspond to the modern ecological and heat saving standards.

The second way is to build the house that you want in the place that you like.

 

Feel free to leave links to alternative housing solutions in the comment section below!

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