Our £3,000 Hobbit house: The family home dug from a hillside and built with 捨てるs scavenged from skips
Fed up with 抱擁する mortgage 支払い(額)s, Simon Dale decided to take 事柄s into his own 手渡すs ? literally.
武装した with only a chisel, a chainsaw and a 大打撃を与える, the 32-year-old moved his family to a hillside in むちの跡s and started digging.
The result is a 木造の eco-home ? 建設するd in four months and costing? just £3,000 ? which would look perfectly at 緩和する と一緒に the Hobbit houses in The Lord Of The (犯罪の)一味s.
Finished article: Simon Dale's family home which he built in four months for a cost of £3,000
Nestled: The moon rises on the house which is roofed with grass and blends in to its woodland surroundings
Cosy home: The house is heated by a 支持を得ようと努めるd burner and a solar パネル盤 供給するs 力/強力にする
Mr Dale, who has no experience in carpentry or architecture, created his 維持できる family home using 捨てる 支持を得ようと努めるd for 床に打ち倒すs, 構成要素s scavenged from skips and by コースを変えるing water from a nearby spring.
And while he was doing the building work, his wife Jasmine Saville and their two toddler children (軍の)野営地,陣営d in the nearby countryside.
He said: ‘存在 your own have-a-go architect is a lot of fun and 許すs you to create and enjoy something which is part of yourself and the land rather than, at worst, a 集まり-produced box designed for 最大限 利益(をあげる) and the convenience of the construction 産業.
‘Building from natural 構成要素s does away with 生産者s’ 利益(をあげる)s and the cocktail of 発ガン性の 毒(薬)s that fill most modern buildings.’
維持できる: Simon Dale, who had no experience as a carpenter or architect when he started the 事業/計画(する), used lime plaster and 支持を得ようと努めるd from the surrounding area
Woodland 見解(をとる): Mr Dale put the 木材/素質 でっちあげる,人を罪に陥れる up first, then the roof, so his family could be 避難所d while he carried out the 残り/休憩(する) of the work
Hobbit house: The finished article sits in the Welsh hillside and is almost hidden from 見解(をとる)
The family struck lucky searching for a 場所/位置 for their dream 事業/計画(する). In return for looking after the area, the owner of the 支持を得ようと努めるd gave them their 陰謀(を企てる) for 解放する/自由な.
After digging into the hillside, Mr Dale ? with the help of his father-in-法律, a 建設業者 ? first 建設するd the building’s 木材/素質 でっちあげる,人を罪に陥れる.
The roof, which (機の)カム next, has a 層 of straw bales for insulation and is covered? with sheets of plastic to make it waterproof.
Finally it is covered with a 層 of earth, which 確実にするs the house blends perfectly into its surroundings.
Woodland home: Simon Dale, with wife Jasmine Saville and their two children outside their home, just four months after starting work
Once the outer 爆撃する was 完全にする, the family made an 内部の 塀で囲む from straw bales stacked on 乾燥した,日照りの-石/投石する 塀で囲むing and 火刑/賭けるd together with hazel sticks.
Once the 塀で囲むs were up a sub-床に打ち倒す made from pallets was laid, with floorboards put 負かす/撃墜する on 最高の,を越す.
行方不明になる Saville, 令状ing on her husband’s website, said: ‘Some past experience, lots of reading and self-belief gave? us the courage of our 有罪の判決 that we 手配中の,お尋ね者 to build our own home in natural surroundings.
‘For us, one choice led to another and each time we? took the 急落(する),激減(する) events conspired to 補助装置 us in our 使節団. There were times of 強調する/ストレス and exhaustion, but? definitely no 悔いるs and plenty of satisfaction.’
Window on the 支持を得ようと努めるd: The cosy sitting room looks out through the 温室 to the surrounding woodland
From scratch: Simon Dale building his 'hobbit house'
Before and after:? 見解(をとる) from the unfinished window (left) and piles of 石/投石するs on the house 場所/位置
創立/基礎s: The house takes 形態/調整 with palettes laid as a sub 床に打ち倒す, ready for 床に打ち倒す boards
Helping 手渡す: Simon Dale's son helps out 集会 支持を得ようと努めるd
Family 仕事: Simon Dale moved his family to むちの跡s and started building
同様に as 存在 made from 維持できる 構成要素 the Hobbit house, as it is dubbed by 地元のs, has lime plaster on its 塀で囲むs instead of 固く結び付ける, a compost 洗面所, a fridge 冷静な/正味のd by 空気/公表する from beneath the 創立/基礎s and solar パネル盤s for 力/強力にする.
Mr Dale said: ‘This sort of? life is about living in harmony with both the natural world and ourselves, doing things 簡単に and using appropriate levels of 科学(工学)技術.’
Since building his house, Mr Dale is に引き続いて the design to 建設する the first home in the Lammas Village, むちの跡s’s first eco-開発.
For more (警察などへの)密告,告訴(状) on building low 衝撃 homes, visit www.simondale.逮捕する
計画(する)s: 製図/抽選s for the hobbit house
Insulation: Straw, membrane and earth (不足などを)補う the 塀で囲むs
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