saucydwellings

wow. i want one.

These are lovely. Thank you!

This is the coolest post I've ever seen.

I agree.

OMG, they found Bag End!

Those are all really, really nifty. :)

Aha, that's exactly what I was thinking, as well!

These are gorgeous...
If I suddenly was gifted one, I'd have a real problem finding a way to hang my art collection - not so good with curved or glass walls!
Gorgeous though, and perfect for just the right person.

Easels! Or hanging them from picture wire, from the ceiling. Or some kind of mount with a curve that fits the wall, but is flat where the picture connects. :)

The best advice that I can give here is that it's easier to build the house then put a hill on top of it.

Also, earthship building techniques are all well and good, but you might want to consider a hell of a lot more water proofing than they usually specify.

Roger Dean (the fantasy artist) has done a wonderful collection of conceptual drawings for underground living. Might be worth looking him up!

(If it's not obvious, your boyfriend isn't the only one who dreams of hobbit holes!)

Hehe!

Also, large concrete piles make excellent corridors, and if you put a flat floor down, you can pass plumbing and electrical conduits through them.

Wow! I love them all, especially the first one!

Ah! I waaaant one!

This is awesome! :o

I SO want a hobbit hole! I didn't think houses like those existed in real life. Sooo cool.

omg i want one! it's like Bag End :D

Seems not as 'underground' what with natural light still finding its ways in. Lovely!

Whoa I just read one of Rob Roy's books the other day ... The Sauna which is all about how to build your own sauna out of cordwood masonry. He referred a lot to saunas he'd built for his Earthwood homes but aside from seeing the pictures of the earth covered houses he focused of course on the saunas not the houses.

I never really thought much about it because I'm all about windows for natural light but the 2nd (and 3rd?) houses shown in your post are delightful. Really hoping the "hobbit" part and the big rooms in the latter pictures are all the same house cause I want that!

I just put that book on hold at the library along with his Mortgage Free! book which hopefully gives a lot of hints how to afford to build it without taking out massive construction loans :)

Amazing!

Love love love the hobbit holes, props to everyone who actually managed to build and live in one!

One day, when I am rich...I will have one. My preciousss....

I thought the point of these was not only that they were sustainable, but cheap as well?

True, but where I live the actual land is pretty pricey. How about "one day, when I'm middle to upper middle class, I will own one"? ;)

hehe :) this would be the problem where I live too, space being a very scarce commodity (= pricey).

Those are lovely, especially the "Hobbit" houses! I had no idea the author had such other informative books, too...I shall have to check this out!

I love the last one. The white and curves and earthy simplicity! So lovely.

I love that last one too, though I would need tons and tons of skylights to live in a house like that!

and a really good sump pump.

I NEED a Hobbit House!!!!!

These are amazing, thanks for sharing.

Thanks for posting this! My husband's and my dream is to build a dome home, whenever the time comes that we can afford it without financing - because nobody wants to finance these!

wow ! i can't believe these exist, how fun.

a cheaper DIY solution, if you're into simplicity and minimalism:
dan price, http://www.galfromdownunder.com/dan-price/

i would need to be able to stand up, but that seems like an awesome way to live if you can handle it!

i know what you mean.
i'd like to be able to just live a life like that, without all that clutter and unneccessary stuff, and i try to live as minimalistic as possible, but there are things of sentimental value that i just need around me. only maybe about 2 boxes full, all in all, but still..
though i do happen to know some people who live in wagonplaces, and even though it's not underground living, it appeals to me quite a lot. nature and community all around.

hundertwasser also lived in an underground house most of his life. not fancy and stylish, but more down to earth, kind of organic living. i love it.

See, I would love to have a house that was at least partially earth-sheltered, but how can you get anything affordable to pass building inspections? Anybody know of any resources about how to get any kind of self-construction stuff like this to conform to codes or get passed somehow?

The second one has my heart. I don't know how I'd fit in it--curved walls and straight furniture being what they are, and small spaces imposing their own discipline--but to have it as a studio or a weekend house would be a dream.

I like these a lot but it'd be weird to mow the roof. XD

COOL!

This looks like the place where the teletubbies lived

What a neat idea! And those are nice pictures, I like the 2nd one especially
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