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| Linder |
Posted - Jan 23 2009 : 5:36:07 PM
Check out this wonderful website I found in Country Living.
www.tinytexashouses.com
This guy makes amazing houses out of salvaged materials!
I emailed with him the better part of the day today and am so impressed with what he's doing.
Go to the picture gallery and have a look.
SO COOL!
"And the day came when the risk to remain tight in a bud was more painful than the risk it took to blossom"
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| melody |
Posted - Jan 25 2009 : 11:34:44 AM
Rhonda,
I just checked out tumbleweed houses. Soooooooo cute! But, can you imagine cabin fever in one of those??
Melody
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| mikesgirl |
Posted - Jan 25 2009 : 08:33:36 AM
Wow - those are spendy!! Very very cute but spendy. The one that is the size of our cabin was $90,000 - dh and I spent $7000 on materials for ours. But I'd still love to have one!!
Farmgirl Sister #98
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| Amie C. |
Posted - Jan 25 2009 : 08:03:09 AM
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We'd have to have 3 more just for storage. :) lol
~Rhonda
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I've always liked the idea of a compound...one little house for sleeping/privacy, one for cooking and entertaining, one for a workshop/storage. Of course, in this climate, walking back and forth between them would get old real fast during the winter. |
| rhondacate |
Posted - Jan 24 2009 : 9:25:42 PM
I love, love, love those.
My husband and I often look at the tiny houses on the tumbleweed site and really love them:
http://www.tumbleweedhouses.com
But I think I might like the ones with salvaged materials even more.
Of course right now we live in a TINY house, but not nearly as cute as those. And who am I kidding, we could never fit all of our stuff in one of those. We'd have to have 3 more just for storage. :) lol
~Rhonda
http://rmfo-blogs.com/rhonda |
| Buffalomary |
Posted - Jan 24 2009 : 9:11:18 PM
They are so cute! That would definitely be one to eliminate a lot of "stuff" just lying around. But I'm also not sure if I could get the ladder. My poor old knees sometimes have a mind of their own.
I also found sort of prices at the "Design Options and Pricing" tab, right next to the Contact Us. It appears it would depend on how far away you are. Wonder if my brother could haul one up here for me? Hmmmm....
Buffalomary
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| Amie C. |
Posted - Jan 24 2009 : 5:34:51 PM
Usually when they don't have the prices marked it means "if you have to ask, you can't afford it". I hope not, but it sounds like they put quite a lot of custom labor into these buildings, and then shipping on top of that.
I'm looking forward to seeing the kits and plans that the website says are coming soon. I bet I could build something like that. Not that I have any building experience, but I like the idea of a house so small I wouldn't be scared to get up on the roof. |
| dkelewae |
Posted - Jan 24 2009 : 2:25:14 PM
Okay...I took a peek at that website and thought "Wow! How cool would it be to have a bunch of these on farmland somewhere...a regular MJF commune!"
Diana
Farmgirl Sister #272
St. Peters MO
Country Girl trapped in the city!
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| therusticcottage |
Posted - Jan 24 2009 : 12:08:34 PM
I didn't see any pricing on the site. I'm laying in bed last night thinking about these cute little houses, how I'd decorate, what kind of furniture I'd have, etc. Now I'm totally hooked!
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| mikesgirl |
Posted - Jan 24 2009 : 10:13:56 AM
Love these - did anyone notice pricing anywhere on the site?
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| Bellepepper |
Posted - Jan 24 2009 : 09:23:57 AM
Cute as a bugs ear. If we lived in one of these cuties, we wouldn't have so much stuff to clean around. |
| Farmtopia |
Posted - Jan 24 2009 : 06:26:55 AM
Haha, the guy is my new hero, and the houses are cute! 
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| homesteaderbelle |
Posted - Jan 24 2009 : 01:48:58 AM
Those houses are so cute!
Belle
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| melody |
Posted - Jan 23 2009 : 8:18:13 PM
Right around Christmas I contacted the Nixon Presidential Library about the house former President Nixon grew up in Lorba Linda California. What a darling little house! Apparently it was a "kit" like they used to get early on in the early 1900's... Sears put them out and Aladdin Readi-Cut Houses had them as well as a few others. Well, yesterday the Library and Museum sent me a huge envelope with the floor plans of the birthplace, built in 1912 by his father Frank, as well as copies of a few homes that were comparable to his.
I live in a huge old Victorian right now, but in a fews years the kids will be gone and we have decided to go "small". My dream is to have a home just like Nixon's birthplace home. He grew up on a Lemon Ranch! Doesn't that sound wonderful? Check out the web site at http://www.nixonlibrary.gov and see the birthplace of Richard Nixon.
Melody
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| therusticcottage |
Posted - Jan 23 2009 : 7:58:43 PM
I want one!!! I love the Victorian B & B and the Farmhouse on the creek. This would be the perfect retirement home for me in about 10 years. Although I don't know if I would be able to climb a ladder to bed every night!
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| Amie C. |
Posted - Jan 23 2009 : 6:45:26 PM
I love these houses. Abso-freakin-lutely love them. I've got to have one someday, and I'm not kidding.
Hey, one of the houses in the gallery is in New Braunfels...wonder if Heather (catscharm) has seen it? |
| lisamarie508 |
Posted - Jan 23 2009 : 6:04:56 PM
I love the Victorian farmhouse in progress and the Victorian Bed and Breakfast. These are really cool. Ideas....
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