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I'm here because of Ken Kern's books, so I'll start it out by recommending them.
Ken Kern Books
Many of Ken's books are available used. Ken traveled all over the world documenting low cost ways of doing things and published them in his "Owner Built" series. There is a lot of alternative building information there but there are also many alternative ways of doing standard building construction. Guaranteed interesting and valuable reading.
Thanks again to John for this free place to share information.
John's Book Review & Search Link:
http://www.countryplans.com/books.html
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This place doesn't like me tonight! I keep losing posts. (Actually I think it's the Mouse with a "back" button in an awkward place)
Ken Kern books can be gotten in the used market. Sometimes at collector's item prices. Try Amazon, Powell's and Alibris.
www.dirtcheapbuilder.com carries some. She used to have new old stock. Now mostly reprints. Here's a message she posted a couple of months ago to a list about the masonry stove book:
But anyone can get it direct by calling Barbara Kern's daughter Heidi Kern Huebner who is now running the reprint business. 559-323-8559 PST CLovis CA
I've been happily reading another Christopher. Day, not Alexander.
Amazon (sometimes called the 500 pound gorilla) carries two, both pretty well recommended:
Places of the Soul would be the earlier one except that there is a second edition which is the one for sale. I haven't seen the new edition, been a long time since I read the older one.
My truck book recently has been Spirit and Place Interesting book. Maybe more about communities that we're likely to need, but still interesting.
(I've always got a book with me, generally at least one each in the truck and the car)
More books, these from the all-natural front:
I really do like Tony Wrench's book. He tells us how to make--but not how to figure the math--on a reciprocating roof. Here's the Amazon link. Not sure why they have tarpaper or plastic bags hanging from a window in the most recent photo, but the story as of last weekend is below the link after the book. Wrench's house looks sturdy. Some of the other ones built on the same lines in the area do not.
http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/ASIN/1856230198/qid%3D1111669029/sr%3D11-1/ref%3Dsr%5F11%5F1/104-3912253-9893536
Tony Wrench's round house in Wales is still up.
He's been fighting that all this century. The latest, described by IndyMedia as a "fluffy demonstration" involving a Yurt being set up in the police parking lot, is described here:
http://www.indymedia.org.uk/en/regions/sheffield/2004/04/289349.html
Probably one of the links below the story will mention that the planning commission wanted low-impact house--just like the near McMansion that is visible from the round house.
Speaking of the Welch, let's put a link in to one of Ianto Evans' books.
The Hand Sculpted House. Kind of the cob bible. By Evans along with Michael Smith, Linda Smiley and an illustrator who might be responsible for a picture in there of round rocks in the foundation of a house. I hadn't noticed this, someone did the "Ianto Says" (so it must be the gospel truth!) bit, citing this as why he should be gathering round rocks. All the wall builders' books I've read say that this is a no-no. For the same reason that round sand is a no-no. There are a few goofs on that order. Enough that you need at least one other book, better yet, a workshop--maybe with Glen!
But it sweeps you along with the vision. And gives you a lot of ideas for siting, designing VERY small houses. So I tend to recommend it even if you have no desire to become a happy cobber.
http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/ASIN/1890132349/qid=1111669788/sr=2-1/ref=pd_ka_b_2_1/104-3912253-9893536
I think the Amazon links posted here may track us individually through cookies, so it would be best for us to post book names and information here but search it through the link I posted above on John's book page to order, so the site gets credit.
I was hoping that once you got to Amazon through John's page, you could put anything in and it would count.
That might be too simple for us, and too hard for a computer.
But it's certainly a good idea to put the information--author, and title at least, when we describe a book.
Do you get told about benefiting John (or Kelly Hart or whoever) when you order through the website? I never have, but I'm not sure I've done it very often.
I'd kind of doubt that used books count.
(I've gotten notes from one of the used book places that they would greatly appreciate it if next time I ordered directly from them and not let Amazon get its cut. One of the reasons the last couple of used books I've gotten came from alibris. A friend both buys and sells on half.com a lot)
I just went and rechecked to verify that if I search through John's link, Amazon knows what I searched yesterday due to a cookie they put on my computer, so my search link to their page will differ from your search link even if we go through John's link. The benefit is that they can tailor it to me -what I like and bring up my payment information, orders, etc. Best if we post the info rather than a link to the page we arrived at to be safe. When I searched the same book you did yesterday my page address was different than yours for the same book.
There will be no notice to us that it benefits John, however just as they know what books we like, they know we got there from John's site referral. Probably all in the cookies.
I think that when it goes from John's link to Amazon then to the used book places Amazon takes their cut from the used or new book sale then credits John his commission for his share of their partnership. Going direct to the book store for new or used will cut Johns commission out although you will probably not see a difference in price and you will not benefit from finding a good used book cheaper at another store. Amazon collects information from all over and lets us pick which one we want. An individual store will not do that.
The book store would be happier but John would not receive a commission for maintaining the site (paying expenses) that referred us to them. I feel this is a good way to help John keep this site from costing him an excessive amount of money as we do get to talk about nearly anything that can be remotely construed to be about building a house or cabin and much of it is for our benefit rather than his. I say this as one company sent me a receipt showing the Amazon cut they would not mind keeping. They are probably not aware that we wouldn't have found them if we didn't have these discussions in our forum.
As an aside from that though, hopefully a large group of interested people will come here, who would not otherwise come here due to the freedom we have to explore different subjects-- they will proceed to buy all John's plans, make him very rich, and to show his appreciation he will take us all out to lunch. ;D
Okay -so everyone already thinks I am out to lunch :-/
At one time, amazon was dabbling with what they call "zone pricing" in the grocery world. That's a scheme that sets prices based on one's ability to pay - stores in more affluent neighborhoods often have higher prices for the exact same products (although, prices on some things are actually lower in the higher prices stores because they are bought more than they are stolen, as they might be in a poorer neighborhood!)
In amazon's case, they where using zip codes to determine pricing. If your zip code covers an affluent neighborhood, you got offered a higher price than someone living in a less affluent zip code.
Fortunately, I think they gave up the practice after people started noticing and complaining. (Grocery stores still employ zone pricing though!)
Wish they still had that policy - I should get my books free since I am "In the hole" (in the ground).
Here is one I ordered the other day - Homework-Handbuilt Shelter by Lloyd Kahn and the Amazon review:
Editorial Reviews
Product Description:
Building on the enormous success of the original Shelter, Lloyd Kahn continues his odyssey of finding and exploring the most magnificent and unusual hand-built houses in existence. Among the intriguing domiciles described in Home Work are a Japanese-style stilt house accessible only by a cable across a river; a stone house in a South African valley whose roof serves as a baboon trampoline; multi-level treehouses on the South China Sea; and a bottle house in the Nevada desert. Over 1,500 photos illustrate various innovative architectural styles and natural building materials that have gained popularity in the last two decades such as cob, papercrete, bamboo, adobe, strawbale, timber framing, and earthbags.
Glenn: I'll be interested in your reivew of this. I still go back for inspiration to my tattered copy of "Shelter" (It's oversized and never fits with any of the other books—that does make it easy to find :-/)
It should be here in a week or so-- the pics on Amazon were amazin' ;D
I will be sure to update you - it really looks and sounds great.
It's lovely!
A Little House of My Own: 47 Grand Designs for 47 Tiny Houses by Lester Walker
Amazon ~$16 some online pages.
Be a little careful with that book if you already have, apparently, either Tiny Houses or even Tiny Tiny Houses
A lot of the material has been recycled among the three.
That said. I love Tiny Houses the one of those that I have.
Four of my books already arrived - Ordered the 23d rec'd the 25th at the cheap USPS rate (free shipping through Amazon special).
I'll start with
Home Work - Handbuilt Shelter by Lloyd Kahn since John requested it.
This book is a sequel to Kahn's 1973 book "Shelter". Another large oversized book, it is a book that you won't be able to put down. The book claims some 1100 photos and over 300 drawings all illustrating shelters of one type or another that are built by hand. Most of the pictures are in color featuring some of the best photography you will ever see.
This book has helped me to realize that I like vernacular architecture - not the kind that comes in a box, but the kinds of homes and buildings people make using the materials they have around them without professional help - or is it- ??? The rest of the world knows about this type of building and much of it has been there for a thousand years or more.
Hippy vans, naked builders, Flying Concrete, Timolandia, ferrocement houses, natural houses, unnatural houses, earth houses, boat houses, tree houses, fantasy houses, a greenhouse built out of old car windshields-- more great houses and buildings than you could ever imagine, simply because many of these places are beyond imagination. This is inspiring me to go finish my secret room so I can show everybody.
There are things in this book that are guaranteed to inspire you to do something weird just because they are so interesting looking. Okay - then I'll guarantee that they will inspire me to do something weird. What's new? :-/
At any rate, if you are looking for inspiration and want to get away from the cookie cutter look, want something different, or just want to look at pictures because you can't read, then I highly recommend that you get this book. You won't be sorry.
Looking at the price I paid at Amazon -$17.79 I couldn't believe it -list on the back is $26.95. It would have been a bargain at the high price. ;D
Thanks for the Great Review Glenn!
You should be writing for the New York Times Review of Books.
We (the royal we) are honored that you share with us your pearls of wisdom.
Thanks for the compliment, John. I re-read the review myself to see what I write like when I'm half asleep, and have to admit I was near to ordering the book again. ;D
I will post the review of my next book here after looking at the pictures - everyone knows I can't read. :)
I'm going to add Glenn's review of this to the books link page.
I've also found that Lloyd Kahn has a great website and online newsletter where he writes up his adventures. Here is a link (with some great pictures) on hiking and visiting small cabins in Colorado:
http://www.shelterpub.com/_lloyd/gimme_nov-04.A.html
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Shelters Shacks and Shanties by Dan Beard.
I've always loved this book. I (and my mother before me) grew up on Dan Beard and Ernest Thompson Seton.
He has a vertical log cabin that looks like a bank I put it in down at the bottom of the page.
It's out of copyright so at least four publishers have reprinted it. Down below I've put a site that has some of the book in it.
Including Lloyd Kahn
http://www.shelterpub.com/_shelter/sss_intro.html
Amazon sells one (with a new introduction!)
http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/tg/detail/-/1558219528/104-3912253-9893536?v=glance
dirtcheapbuilder has one:
http://shop.store.yahoo.com/dirtcheapbuilderbooks/shelshacands1.html
Lee Valley Tools has a large selection of classic reprints including this:
http://www.leevalley.com/wood/page.aspx?c=2&p=40962&cat=1,46096,46100
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And at the bottom of this page, there are selections from the book.
http://www.inquiry.net/
Here's the vertical log cabin that looks like a bank:
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I have a book to add and recommend.....!
"Country Wisdom and Know-How" everything you need to know to live off the land.....! It's the size of a large road atlas and 480 pages (news print style)
Available from COSTCO item# 835624 $12.49
ISBN 1-57912-368-6
:)
This looks interesting.
Here is a link to it at Amazon:
http://tinyurl.com/6bsg2
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This was also mentioned in Lloyd Kahn's "Home Work" book as a good resource.
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This book is one of the best on Vernacular architecture. The cover photo only hints at the photographic wealth contained inside.
After spending a long time looking through it at my cabin, my father-in-law stated, "There is no reason anyone should ever have to sleep outside." After you check out the stunning photography by Yoshio Komatsu, you will have to agree. It is a building course by itself.
If you study this book from cover to cover-(you won't be able to stop) and you are ever in a situation where you need a shelter to insure your survival, and you can't build one after taking in all this knowledge-- well - the gene pool is probably better off without you anyway!!
Okay - enough kidding around- seriously now, this book is one that will not disappoint you.
Look for it and more at the Amazon link on John's book page below.
http://www.countryplans.com/books.html
The Steens are into everything....bale, adobe, cob, plaster, B&B, books....everything...down in Cochise Co, AZ
http://www.caneloproject.com/
I just went back and looked some more at the web site....which I hadn't been on in a while.
I love the way these people get their outbuildings and B&B cottages built and charge people to do it. :D
How do I get a job like that?
It's a good plan if you can make it work. I find lots of interest - most don't want to pay for the knowledge- some are willing to trade work for it. Guess I'll have to reach farther to find the type of people they do.
I have their Straw Bale House Book also. It's another good book with quite a bit of plaster information in it.
Today I am putting in a septic system for some friends who are building a straw bale house in the near future. I will probably assist some.
Here's a new book that really struck a resonating chord:
The House That Jill Built
http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/ASIN/1586854593/qid=1116613719/sr=2-1/ref=pd_bbs_b_2_1/103-6667397-3080669
A major goal of the book is to inspire women to build their own houses. Several different women and their projects are presented. The photographs are excellent. Most of the women have interesting stories to tell -- about how they came to build -- about what they have learned from the experience.
I'm a guy, so I'm not exactly in the target audience. But, my own small but growing skill-set is similar to many of the profiled builders. I am also not a burly fellow, able to easily heft 3/4" sheets of plywood as though it was cardboard.
The reason I bought the book, is that many of the houses have been crafted in ways that reflect what I hope to accomplish with my own project. These houses underline the great advantages to being an owner-builder: the ability to build exactly what you want, with as much detail and quality as your time and skill-set will allow.
Here is the title and author of a book that Scott McGrath of the home tour found inspiring and with a quick browse through it I decided to order it also. Published in 1974 I only saw it available used.
Handmade;: Vanishing cultures of Europe and the Near East,
by Drew Langsner
I will post more about it after I get it. There were no Amazon reviews.
A search on the Drew Langsner was pretty interesting. Big on country windsor chairs and green wood building, wrote a book on log houses, something about quilts.
Here's the Handmade book. Link is to a British bookseller. But the bookstore seems to be in Florida.
http://www.abebooks.co.uk/servlet/BookDetailsPL?bi=200398374
Alibris has a handful of Handmade, no picture of the cover, though--prices all over the place.
http://www.alibris.com/search/search.cfm?chunk=25&mtype=&qauth=Drew%20langsner&qtit=Handmade%20Vanishing&S=R&browse=2&qsort=r&cm_re=works*intro*expand
Langsner lives about an hour north of Asheville North Carolina, and here's his website;
http://www.countryworkshops.org/
The Langsners' Handmade looks like a nice book. They seem to have been interested in everything, so there are bits on how people actually used their houses, a long section on how to make feta cheese (including how their neighbors in Greece made rennet), what the roof framing for those big tiles looked like, and so on.
It might be more inspirational for those who are homesteading than those of us just building a house, but it's very nice.
The first chapter doesn't seem particularly dated, either, which is what one wonders about with old books.
(e.g., Dan Beard talks about using white lead to waterproof one of his roofs--we don't do that anymore, and if we did we would hate to have the Boy Scouts playing with it)
Our friend on the home tour let me look at the book while I was there and it was one I thought I needed to get. As you said, Amanda, it does go into a lot of things besides building.
I'm reading "The Cobber's Companion" by Michael Smith. It's a good read even if you don't plan to build using clay and straw.
Lots of good creative ideas for building any natural house.
Here is a link to photos:
http://www.cobcottage.com/pics/
Ideas galore!
For example...
(http://www.peak.org/~deatech/cobcottage/pics/cb1-11-1.low.jpg)
(a bathtub for Glenn :D)
(http://www.peak.org/~deatech/cobcottage/pics/cb1-10-2.low.jpg)
(almost feels like we've entered Middle Earth)
Sorry to disappoint you John, but I'm not due for a bath for a couple more months.
Well then, you'll have time to get the tub finished before your bathtime.
::)
That bathtub setting is wonderful! If probably part of a bigger bathroom than I'll ever build.
I am thinking of doing a cob sun room around the hot tub some time - just waiting for the proper design to pop into my head. That and the fact that I like to sit out there in the dark looking at the lights of the airport and valley in the distance while enjoying the faint light of the million stars in the night sky and listening to the gentle whirring of the wind generator overhead. It makes it hard for any type of a building to be the right design. :-/
I am thinking of making a white stucco cave for my tub and shower in the second bathroom - have the stuff- now need the drive and the time. ::)
I've seen a couple of pictures lately of huge skylights--one 6-footer in (over) a bathroom.
Look nice, at least in the photographs (one of the vacation houses in the new Dwell magazine, for instance), but I'd guess expensive and difficult.
But it might work, with a cob bathhouse in a room that can be either a screen room or a glassed (polycarbonated?) room, depending on weather.
I've thought of several things - a tempered glass roof overhead that will completely rotate out of the way - hinged frames that open completely straight up separating at the ridge board - etc. and I could do it fairly easily, but hate to give up the totally open tub. Next thing I can think of is to put another smaller one in the greenhouse running the hot water from the heater to it - I could also route it through my hydronic floor in the cabin doing two things at once in the winter- valves could keep it out of the floor in the summer. :)
I've just gotten copies of the newest straw bale books.
Looked a bit at Gernot Minke's. Lot of color pictures, a good chunk of them not in the U.S. or Canada--nice story of a student built structure that was seriously screwed up (basically they forgot to pre-stress their--all load bearing--bales) and how it was fixed.
That one was at Minke's own building program in Germany--Research Laboratory for Experimental Building at Kassell University. ;)
But, they managed a reciprocating roof in a square building (ran the figures on deflection on the rafters--a whole lot heavier than Tony Wrench's building, but Wrench's does--or did--have interior poles IIRC.)
Cover picture is of a famous house/studio/office in London--Sarah Wigglesworth's, also featured in Extreme Houses, and last time I looked there was extensive coverage on the web.
It's got walls of transparent corrugated polycarbonate roofing over the part of the bales.
Minke is kind of the God of earthen building, fine free .pdf booklet on the best ways to keep your building from falling down in an earthquake (or any other stress) expensive book on Earthen building in general. And he lives in an underground house (living roof over at least part of it IIRC) that was the subject of a photo shoot in one of the natural building magazines.
Building with Straw Design and Technology of a Sustainable Architecture, Gernot Minke and Friedemann Mahlke.
Amazon can get it, but I don't think they give a discount, maybe even add a surcharge--but you still get free shipping!
The other one is going to be easier to find--from a Canadian company--New Society Publishers that appears to be associated with Mother Earth News. Amazon may keep this one in stock, although sometimes they're weird about Canadian books.
More Straw Bale Building, by Chris Magwood, Peter Mack, Tina Thierrien. I think these guys are based in the North-East U.S., and adjoining parts of Canada. Magwood and Mack have written other books, together and possibly separately.
More later.
When we last saw our heroine, she had just seen the squib in More Straw Bale Building that it was a re-write of an earlier book, and was wincing.
I'm happy to say that it doesn't read like it. It's probably one of those books that should be on a lot of people's bookshelf, whether or not they have any interest in "all natural" building.
The authors have lots of experience in SB by now, and a pretty amazing list of things that they don't do any more.
A lot of their work is in Eastern Canada.
Which of course means they haven't a clue about cooling! I think I have yet to read a book that DOES have a clue.
(I did follow up on Jonesey's suggestion that I look into the Solar AC list. Strange. The most helpful suggestion is "open up the house at night, close it up in the daytime, preferably with shutters." Even that won't work well if we get another summer like that of 1980--All of July and into the first week of August, highs for the day over 100F, lows over 80F. And no rain at all.)
A Tiny Home to Call Your Own
Living Well in Just Right Houses
by Patrica Foreman & Andy Lee
Table of Contents
About the Cover 2
Praise for a Tiny Home to Call Your Own 6
Introduction 14
Recipe for a Tiny Home 18
Chapter 1: Is a Tiny Home Right for You? 22
People Who Might be Interested in Tiny Homes 22
Uses for Tiny Homes 31
Chapter 2: Tiny Homes Can Help You Have More Time, More Freedom, and More Money 35
Ways You Can Save Money by Building a Tiny Home 38
Chapter 3: Tiny Homes and the People Who Love Them 40
Terri Bsullak's Tiny Home 40
The Lane's Shed Home 48
Ray Pealer's Tiny House Trade Station 56
The Campbell's Combined Work Shop and Garden Shed 60
Uncle Gene's Tiny Home 64
Chapter 4: Tiny Houses We Have Built 68
Andy's Weekender 68
Room for Guests 71
Sun Block House 73
Virginia Guest Cottage 74
Chapter 5: Tiny Homes to Go 76
What We Can Learn From the RV and Boating Industries 78
Park Trailer Classification 80
Copper Top Cabin 81
New England Style Tiny House 83
Small Log Cabin Homes 85
Tumbleweed Tiny Homes 88
Chapter 6: Expanding A Tiny Home with Do-It-Yourself Construction 91
Chapter 7: Clutter Control and Stuffology 110
Redundancy Causes Chaos 113
Closets and Stuff in Tiny Houses 116
Garages and Stuff 117
Ways to Find New Homes For Stuff – Profitably 126
Organizing Stuff 131
Chapter 8: Ecology and the Tiny House Movement 134
Ecological Areas of Concern 134
Ramifications of Large Houses 135
Alternatives to Building with Wood 138
Chapter 9: Conservation Subdivisions and Cottage Communities 148
Conservation Subdivision Design 149
Being a Community 155
Environmental Considerations and Home Characteristics 156
Increased Appreciation and Premium Resale Values 158
Chapter 10: Rainwater Harvesting From Your Tiny Home 159
Water Needs and Harvesting Ability 161
How Much Water Can You Harvest From Your Roof? 163
Locating Your Storage Tanks 166
Storing Harvested Water In Ponds 167
Chapter 11: Can Tiny Houses Help House the Unhoused and Inappropriately Housed? 168
Inappropriately Housed 169
Housing the Unhoused 169
Frequently Asked Tiny House Questions 175
Tiny House Glossary & Evolving Definitions 178
Resource Guide 185
Bibliography & References 187
Index 197
About the Authors 204
$23.95
Good Earth Publications, LLC
20 GreenWay Place
Buena Vista, VA 24416
http://www.tinyhousecompany.com/TH%20Book.html
Books I own (I recommend them all or I wouldn't have bought them!):
-Alex Wade's Guide to Affordable Houses by Alex Wade
-30 Energy-Efficient Houses You Can Build by Alex Wade
-A Design and Construction Handbook for Energy-Saving Houses by Alex Wade
-The Complete Book of Underground Houses by Rob Roy
-Mini House by Alejandro Bahamon
-Country Property Dirt Cheap by Ralph C. Turner
-The New Cottage Home by Jim Tolpin
-The Cabin by Dale Mulfinger and Susan E. Davis
-Mortgage Free! By Rob Roy
-A Little House of My Own by Lester Walker
-Finding and buying your place in the Country by Les and Carol Scher
-The $50 and up underground house book Mike Oehler
-The Small House book by Jay Shafer
-Discover the good life in Rural America by Bob Bone
-Reader's Digest New Complete Do-it-yourself Manual (a book no one should be without!)
Hmmmm. I've got some of those, and what I hope are decent substitutes for some of the others.
In another topic the conversation was about using waste spaces. Thought I'd post this pair of books here, one's already in the other topic, one isn't. Brown is an American architect living Japan who has writte a couple of books about the gorgeous as well as the weird in the way of Japanese houses, a lot of the ideas are interesting, a fair number probably useful.
Here's the new one--I haven't seen it yet, but the earlier one is pretty wonderful:
Azby Brown The Very Small Home
http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/tg/detail/-/4770029993/qid=1123129872/sr=8-1/ref=sr_8_xs_ap_i1_xgl14/104-2081348-2872731?v=glance&s=books&n=507846
Here's the older one:
Azby Brown Small Spaces
http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/tg/detail/-/4770020848/qid=/sr=/ref=cm_lm_asin/104-2081348-2872731?v=glance
This might not be the right place to mention this, but Amazon is getting [glb]phished[/glb] Or is it I'm getting phished with what purports to be a letter from Amazon asking for my identification, passwords, and credit card numbers.
Paypal (alleged) letters are by now almost routine in hotmail--my ISP always lets in the rolex picture, but this was the first time I've seen one from Amazon.
I find that nearly all credit cards - PayPal - Ebay and nearly anyplace you may have money is being attacked.
I don't ever give out information to any of the unsolicited requests for changes or ID and nearly all of them look very believable including official logos and fake fraud alert warning letters. Some of their ploys include telling you your account is in danger of being closed if not updated.
DON'T BELIEVE IT-- AND DON'T FALL FOR IT. Don't become their next victim.
FREE
SHELTER, SHACKS and SHANTIES
http://www.inquiry.net/outdoor/shelter/index.htm
Type "KEN KERN" in "SEARCH" box at:
http://www.motherearthnews.com/
also MOTHER EARTH NEWS archive at:
http://www.motherearthnews.com/mothers_library/
by SUBJECT at left side of page.
"HUMANURE HANDBOOK"
http://www.weblife.org/humanure/
Many books to download at:
http://journeytoforever.org/
Roberts, Rex. "Your Engineered House", "POSSUM LIVING" and other books at:
http://www.soilandhealth.org/03sov/0302hsted/030206possum/030206toc.html
"BACKWOODS HOME" article index at:
http://www.backwoodshome.com/article_index.html
"COUNTRYSIDE" past issues at:
http://www.countrysidemag.com/past.htm
A copy of Lloyd Kahn's "Home Work" http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/ASIN/0936070331/countryplanscom
arrived from John yesterday and I soon found myself completely immersed in it. If you've seen the photos of Glenn's cabin, just imagine a book filled with hundreds of likewise owner-built, handcrafted and one-of-a-kind homes. Now I can't wait to start building something...anything!!
Thanks John!!