Falling off the Grid never looked so good....

[vertical_doug]

Time to pull the plug.

Cabin Porn

(sorry, these really are only cabins in the middle of nowhere.)

[caleb]

Would love to build a sauna around a structure like this:

[Octave]

2012: Where even your privacy and isolation is invalid unless it ends up on tumblr/twitter/instagram.



#offthegrid

[Mabouya]

I live out in the woods. At this time of year all the little critters out in the cold want to come in to live with me...

[mjbabcock]

That mount baker hut is just the liftie station at the top of chair eight. Hardly a cabin as you're sitting there watching goofs fall off the lift and stopping the line by hitting a button. They get so much snow those stilts are usually covered.

[Erik B]

Built this for mom a few years ago.





The crapper

view from

[Mabouya]

Built this for mom a few years ago.

Neat.

Is that the shower, in the corner to the right of the chairs? Where does the water come from? A well?

[kohlboto]

44bikes on page 3:
Cabin Porn

[Erik B]

Neat.

Is that the shower, in the corner to the right of the chairs? Where does the water come from? A well?

Murphy bed behind the curtain.
Cabin is dry.

[David Tollefson]

Needs more bike storage...

[Erik B]

Needs more bike storage...

I suppose this could be purposed as storage.

[WadePatton]

My roof will supply my water, even though they just ran a mile and half of 4" chitty water out my ridge. Don't want it, never did.

Have a few acres out in the woods. That's how i came to this county-found property on a dead end.

Here is the Southeastern Fall view from the proposed location of my future front porch.



now have timberframe and cob experience and log cabin skills too. not sure what will evolve from that, but the land will provide the timber, i just have to assemble it.

we built this in 2 weeks (one week of workshop-more peeps) this spring. some of my timber is in that.




thanks for the inspirational shots in the collection posted.

[sonny]

house in the woods? i'll play

http://www.velocipedesalon.com/forum...way-25768.html

my ex's nest on the slopes above lake roosevelt (80 mi up from coulee dam). we put it up in a winter











a good place to get lost

[Mabouya]

My roof will supply my water, even though they just ran a mile and half of 4" chitty water out my ridge. Don't want it, never did.

I would do a back-flip and gladly pay a one-time $10k fee (and monthly bills) if that's what it took to get me city water.

I currently have a well, but with more and more folks taking water from the aquifer, and longer and longer periods of little rain or full-blown drought, it's just a matter of time until the water drops below the level of the pump and I have to spend a butt-load of money to get the well deepened. Plenty of folks in the area have already had do this. This past summer was brutal. I would be so happy to have a monthly water bill and no worries about the reliability of the supply. Right now I think the closest city water is about 6 or 7 miles from my house, and I doubt that main has enough capacity to be extended out to where I am, if other folks were to also hook up. Big wooded lots out in the boonies are neat, but you pay a price.

[doctor855]

[billrick]

With interest rates low and inflation on the horizon, I keep thinking that this is the time to buy land. You guys are NOT helping.

[sirbryanclark]

Well, just wasted a good hour looking at cabins... Thanks!

[echelon_john]

that's is freakin' slick.

how's the heating/ventilation situation?

house in the woods? i'll play

http://www.velocipedesalon.com/forum...way-25768.html

my ex's nest on the slopes above lake roosevelt (80 mi up from coulee dam). we put it up in a winter











a good place to get lost

[Erik B]

that's is freakin' slick.

how's the heating/ventilation situation?

In the 2nd photo down it looks like there is a direct vent heater of some sort next to the door.

[sonny]

In the 2nd photo down it looks like there is a direct vent heater of some sort next to the door.

yup. that's the auxilary propane heater. it'll warm the whole place in 20 min.

the house has some nasa foil insulation. it does great for being an eighth inch thick. which is to say it slows your losses. there's just so much exterior surface and the ceiling is rather tall that heat naturally wants to go up and out. we put the bed in the prime spot though, lofted in the highest/warmest part of the house. there can be a 20 degree temp gradient from top to bottom. and the dome can be opened and shut for super powerful passive ventilation.

the propane rocks in the morning when you want to get warm while you build a fire in the wood stove
but you'd spend a lot of lp gas heating the place without wood heat.

bring long underwear and socks!