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Hi everyone,
This is a little coincidence here for me, I had
just checked out "creating the not-so-big house" from the library when this
discussion began....one of the homes in it is in my town, Beaufort, SC, in an
extremely (in my opinion) ritzy subdivision.
I live with my husband, two kids, and two large
breed dogs in a slowly crumbling 906 sq. foot trailer, excuse me, mobile
home. The houses in this book that are called "not so big" look enormously
huge to me. We are thinking of building three small structures that will
eventually be, in total, approx. 1500 square feet. Some of the homes in
the book are pretty cool but for the most part I did not see anything
especially exciting. However I was watching extreme homes on HGTV and saw
a really awesome example of something like we want to do with our land, several
structures, small in size and well placed to avoid as much damage to the
landscape as possible-this really cool hawaiian tree house, etc. Did
anyone else see that? and also, does building in a tree have a damaging effect
on the tree or can it be done without hurting it? Just curious, we don't
have any suitable trees here for that, or at least I haven't seen one that has
just cried out "build a house on me", actually I am likely not to do that since
I love trees more than I love most of my relatives and would feel like I was
imposing (still haven't figured out how I am going to deal with having to put
wood structures up to live in since that is made from former trees, hoping to
find alternatives before I get that far, which is why I joined this list,
obviously)
Anyway, I don't see how anyone could call a 2000
square foot house small.
Elizabeth
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