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10 Environmentally friendly homes made by hand

Handmade green home

Ideally, a home is where your heart belongs. It is the bosom for your being, the cradle for your craving, the niche for your nitty-gritty and the nest where you fly back to! A home is a place where you dwell, reside or take refuge. So a home should be the haven for your comfort, luxury, relaxation, and security.

Hence a home is a place where your worldly treasures are arranged to your desire, choice and comfort. It is a place where corner and every crevice is decorated with your own hand. Now imagine crafting your home with your hands, – wouldn’t every lintel and beam make you beam with pride?

Let’s take a tour of some ecofriendly homes made by hand.

1. Prepared from Paper- Handmade Paper House

Handmade paper house

This pristine paradise was constructed, purely out of paper. Hand crafted using 100,000 newspapers by a mechanical engineer, Elis Stenman, in 1922, this paper house had running water and electricity but no bathroom. Out of the entire unit, only the frame, floor and roof were fabricated from wood.

2. A Scottish dream in straw a wood Steve James’ Scotland House

Steve James’ Scotland home

Huddled near a loch at Dumfries, this cozy cottage was crafted completely by hand by Steve James, for just $4000. With true Scottish pride, James takes us on a tour of this cute cottage- complete with its galleried bedroom, marble shower room, and compost loo and rainwater filtration system. With its roof of floral turf, sink from a ship and kitchen from a cedar with a log burning stove, this straw-made house runs on the power from a car battery. A laptop, digital recording studio, stereo and lights all run on this power. This straw-bale house in Scotland is surely a stunning sight!

3. An exquisite ecofriendly earth ship: Hand made House earth ship

Handmade green home

An earth ship is a retreat made of natural recyclable materials, most often running on solar energy. This passive solar earth ship comprises of earth-filled tires as core component with the windows aligned on sun-facing walls to admit heat and light. These buildings are often horseshoe-shaped to maximize heat and light penetration during the winter. Recycled cans joined by concrete and structured like a honeycomb are used to form non-load bearing walls called tin can walls positioned in the interior. These walls are usually thickly plastered with stucco and the roof is insulated heavily with adobe or earth. Earth ships are built to utilize the available local resources, especially energy from the sun.

4. Mystical Mystery Castle

Mystery Castle

Mystery Castle, built by Luther Boyce Gulley, is a Pont of Pride in Phoenix. Designed to be an unusual eclectic abode, the Mystery Castle was made by Gulley from salvaged materials, junk, auto parts, and artifacts. With 18 rooms and 13 fireplaces and even a wedding alter, the items in the house have been named after popular celebrities. Frank Lloyd Wright furniture and sofa, John Wayne items in the bar, and Barry Goldwater some furniture

5. Exotic Eliphante House

Eliphante home

Imagine three acres of architectural ingenuity expressed using broken pottery shards, driftwood, rocks, and earth. Magnificent domes, mischievous mosaics, secret corners, follies – all contrive to conjure the magic of Eliphante- an architectural extravaganza by Michael and Leda Livant in Cornville, Arizona. This fabulous masterpiece consists of 25 foot ceiling, a labyrinthine art gallery called Pipedreams, a studio with a wall made of a Ford Pick Up.

6. Green Hand built Home

Green Handbuilt House

An aspen building built by Ian, this Green Hand built House has a trout stream running around it, surrounding large cedar trees. All doors, windows, roofing, and sinks are built from insulated materials. Its compact interior houses spacious and separate living and dining rooms, sunroom, foyer, kitchen, and a sleeping loft.

7. Low Impact Woodland House

low-impact woodland home

This low-impact woodland house or Hobbit’s House is made up of tree trunks, mud, straw, and lime plaster along with plastic roof sheeting, wooden flooring, and windows found from the junkyard. Built using basic tools like a chisel and hammer, this house is economically down to earth, costing just $3000.

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