Showing posts with label home. Show all posts
Showing posts with label home. Show all posts

Tuesday, 17 January 2023

Featured Small Home Idea ..... The Iconic A-Frame Design ... Grow Rural Canada... Build Back Beauty

 


With a fireplace, dining area, living room, roomy kitchen with an island for food preparation and dining bar plus stairs to an upper loft bedroom this home has it all.. the high ceiling in this smaller home feels spacious, but also snug and cozy.

A-Frame builds are popular due to their simplicity and their open plan layouts.

We give this design a thumbs up!




Saturday, 24 September 2022

Friday, 10 June 2022

Featured Home Designs from Lindal Homes and OMstudio Design "The Aura" and more...

 


What's not to like about this beauty? Both practical and appealing.. more at their Instagram pages.. Be inspired to dream big about your next home and their website and their Youtube channel:

https://lindal.com/floor-plans/om-studio-for-lindal-cedar-homes/



This design below also caught my eye for those obsessed with flooding in the region... check it out!




Sunday, 20 October 2019

Dymaxion: could homes be as affordable & precise as appliances


I am a fan of pre-fab homes..
Supported by tension cables around a central mast, the Dymaxion House was a light-weight, prefab home designed to be flat-packed and shipped worldwide in a metal tube. Drawn up by Buckminster Fuller in the 1920s, he finally built the prototype in 1945 working with Beech Aircraft to take advantage of materials like aluminum and labor primed for WWII production.

Fuller coined the "Dymaxion" term by combining “dy” (dynamic), “max” (maximum), and “ion”(tension) and created both a home and car around the concept. Built of light-weight materials- aluminum and plexiglass-, the home weighed only 3000 pounds, but could withstand winds of 120 miles per hour and was earthquake and stormproof. It required no maintenance and could be heated and cooled by natural ventilation (a rotating vent on the roof circulated air through the home every 6 minutes).

Fuller patented the “Dymaxion Bathroom” - a shower that required only one cup of hot water, and a toilet that consumed no water at all. O-Volving Shelves required no bending; rotating closets brought the clothes to you. The floorplan and room sizes could be adjusted for parties.

The dismountable home was priced at $6,500 which was not much more than the median home price of $5,000 (50% of which came only with an outhouse). It was never mass produced, but the ideas behind it remain cutting-edge even today.

Watch the walkthrough by NIcolás Boullosa: https://faircompanies.com/author/nico...

https://faircompanies.com/videos/dyma...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dymaxio...