Hand built house

It is easy being green...

A Frank Lloyd Wright house, designed by the architect and hand-built by its owner, came on the market this week in San Anselmo, a 3-bed, 2-bath Usonian house on a .9-acre lot asking $2,500,000....

As amazing as this handmade home is as a work of architecture, its low cost and low-tech, low-impact construction using local materials (and mostly just a chainsaw, hammer and chisel) is at least as compelling as the finished project. This wonderful organic Woodland Home was built by family, friends and even passers by who stopped

I had to show you this DIY hand built off grid tiny cabin in Cable, Wisconsin. There's something so cool about small cabins like this. And this one has a little bit of a modern touch

Cairn has used hand-poured hempcrete to form the rough textured walls at House Made by Many Hands, an extension of a Victorian home in east London.

Cob House (from Wikipedia: "Cob, cobb or clom (in Wales) is a building material consisting of clay, sand, straw, water, and earth, similar to adobe. Cob is fireproof, resistant to seismic activity,[2] and inexpensive. It can be used to create artistic, sculptural forms and has been revived in recent years by the natural building and sustainability movements.)

Name: Tim Eddy and Hannah Fuller Location: Tahoe, California Size: 196 square feet Years lived in: 1.5 years; Owned Hannah grew up in a home her parents built (her father is a boat builder), so it was only natural for her to follow in their footsteps. Tim, on the other hand, has never built anything but fires.

Live like Snow White, Prince Charming or even Shrek in these fairytale homes that look like they’ve been plucked straight from the pages of a book...