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    Low impact hobbit home

    I'd like to build a home for (not with) peanuts using straw bales, mud, etc, and furnish it with hi-tech as they have here. Grow apple trees and honey bees, etc.

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    If some beardy wizard come round and leaves a mark on your front door, you might have to put up with 13 dwarves coming round uninvited for tea.

    You can avoid this by putting up a big sign at the door that reads "YOU SHALL NOT PASS". That should take care of them (and also any wandering Balrog's that might be strolling past).

    HTH.
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      #3
      Originally posted by TimberWolf View Post
      I'd like to build a home for (not with) peanuts using straw bales, mud, etc, and furnish it with hi-tech as they have here. Grow apple trees and honey bees, etc.
      They have a forum...

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        #4
        Originally posted by oracleslave View Post
        They have a forum...
        I was just thinking the same thing
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          #5
          Providence came our way and a landowner offered us the chance to move to his woodland in west Wales to build an eco-house. There would be no formal security or long term ownership, but £2000 was available for materials, so we jumped at the idea without a backward glance.
          No not ideal then, the moment the land owner gets a good offer for either land or house, they could all be out on their collective ears.
          The vegetarian option.

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            #6
            Originally posted by wobbegong View Post
            No not ideal then, the moment the land owner gets a good offer for either land or house, they could all be out on their collective ears.
            I think they buy the land and then try to live on it for a number of years until it becomes legal to live there. Or something like that. Even if you get turfed off after a couple of years, it might be cheaper than renting.
            Last edited by TimberWolf; 2 December 2009, 16:05. Reason: Apart from the people you quote. D'oh.

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