New here. I'm looking for advice on building a bottle wall ( Read more... )

My head is spinning. I've been given until Saturday to get my bedroom entirely empty, and paint/carpet/furniture picked out ( Read more... )

I'm building a 4' tall picket fence around my front yard. No more free-ranging this little toddler. He moves fast.

Wood options from the home improvement store are (1) old school pressure treated [arsenic] and (2) untreated. Since I'm using my yard for edible gardening, I do not want even a small amount of arsenic added to the soil.

So... My old ( Read more... )

Hello and thank you all for your many wonderful and helpful answers to my "bus housing" questions. :) i'm sorry i wasn't able to respond to more of them individually, but all the suggestions had me spending every waking moment researching! Hubby was more than a little amused at my enthusiasm ( Read more... )

i'm not sure if this works as a post in this community, but you guys have been great with other questions and i can't think of anywhere better to ask something like this ( Read more... )

I normally hate the mobile home look but the I-House is a really cool concept and I would totally live in one.

The following is an excerpt from this article ( Read more... )

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Has anyone else had a chance to check out Lloyd Kahn's Builders of the Pacific Coast? I first found out about the book from the Inspiring Handmade Homes article on Mother Earth News. It's wonderful. The imagination some of these people have, the greatness of their own little corner of the world and the jealously that follows every new reader to be ( Read more... )

This was mod approved and I posted it with "Mod-approved promo" in the first line. Then it got deleted by a different mod. Please do not delete again.

My fabulous friend tenacious_snail is currently house-hunting and thinking about green renovations she'll be making to her new place. She's looking to share ideas so she created the community green_homes to talk about all ( Read more... )

Hello! I joined this community *years* ago, but I haven't been reading for quite some time now - My how it's grown! Let's see if I remember how to do this ( Read more... )