Comments on: Recycled Houses???

By: Out Of The Box Teacher

Out Of The Box Teacher — Mon, 11 Oct 2010 04:49:09 +0000

Sounds like an awesome idea, but the ‘stable job’ thing is unfortunately pretty hard for so many people!
I’m glad that he’s helping out though!

By: Dusty

Dusty — Wed, 30 Dec 2009 16:08:08 +0000

This is great! Our in laws recently did something similar to this. They have about 15K in their three bedroom home. It is a nice home with picture windows, slinding doors, and nice big arches. A good portion of the materials came from a couple of homes that were being demolished. They were able to get all of their windows, doors, bathroom vanity, decks, and many other things for free. All of the work was done by family, something you don’t see everday. As a housewarming present they recieved a plaque that read: A house is built with wood and beams, a home is built with love and dreams. I wished hubby and I had thought about this idea before we got our dreaded mortgage.

By: Valerie

Valerie — Tue, 15 Dec 2009 17:31:34 +0000

Kathy, this is GREAT. My husband is in construction and oh the things he brings home. We once built a huge porch from pallets, he started it and got busy with work. All that watching and bringing tea taught me how to finish. I just took the hammer and seperated the pallets, picked up the skill saw, cut the boards and nailed it together. All it cost was nails and time, and some of the nails from the pallets were still useable…. I miss Texas Country Reporter, we used to watch it on RFD when we had sallilite, but cut the sallitlite off. I hope you don’t mind but I want to share this on my blog, I will of course tell them where I got it from.

By: Melonie K.

Melonie K. — Tue, 15 Dec 2009 05:27:59 +0000

LOVE it! The comments from Eric about the community as an orchard coming from this one man’s “seed” of an idea and project literally brought tears to my eyes. I agree with Marcia’s concern but hopefully as long as each building is up to code, they should be good to go. LOVE LOVE LOVE it.

By: Kim M

Kim M — Tue, 15 Dec 2009 02:35:51 +0000

Oh I love this! Thank you for sharing it. I used to get Mother Earth News magazine, and they had all kinds of ideas of this sort. One of my favorite articles they wrote once was about alternative housing. They had yurts and underground homes and all sorts of neat, unique homes. This is my favorite though! I will link to this!

By: aardvark

aardvark — Tue, 15 Dec 2009 00:02:03 +0000

Along with the modern term “working poor,” the Victorians had an even more politically incorrect term: deserving poor. The church folk who doled out aid were not about to give it to the town drunk who would promptly waste it. Aid went to the sick widow who COULD not work. It’s time we returned to that standard of small scale, local aid and self-help.

By: Marcia Wilwerding

Marcia Wilwerding — Sun, 13 Dec 2009 02:02:42 +0000

This really resonates deeply with me. It’s a fine idea. Let’s just hope the government doesn’t get wind of it and mess it up.

By: Kelly

Kelly — Fri, 11 Dec 2009 16:02:13 +0000

Oh my goodness… this is one of the most brilliant/noble/happy things I’ve seen in a long time–thank you! I’ll be linking