Do It Yurtself
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Do It Yurtself
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#2This was on /r/DIY earlier this week. I was a heavy critic to say the least.
The post just didn't feel like a genuine DIY project.
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OP is a very talented videographer/photographer and it definitely pushed this out of feeling "DIY" for me. I'm glad to see that OP removed some of the forced marketing content to focus purely on the DIY side of this project. I don't really get the whole yurt thing (especially on cost compared to a more traditional route), but it's a neat project.
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#3tl;dr: man builds a home out of 30ft yurt, with modern amenities, in the countryside. The post is a photo report.
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#4tl;dr: man builds a home out of 30ft yurt, with modern amenities, in the countryside. The post is a photo report.
Hopefully he didn’t yurt himself building it.
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#5I don’t get the fascination with Yurts. It’s a tent. People stopped living in tents as soon as they could, because they don’t stay cool, don’t stay warm, and don’t stay dry. They only work well in gentle, temperate climates.
The one advantage to tents is mobility, but Yurts are pretty much permanent tents. They’re the worst tent.
If you’re a nomadic group in the plains with not much wood around and a herd of animals it makes sense. Build tents with skins, burn the poo for fire.
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#6You can set up plants in you bedroom like that today.
Why haven't you done it?
The yurt changes nothing, it's just a normal bedroom.
If you don't want to install a skylight it'd be possible with leds in a subtle/attractive/fancy way, go the HN angle
Anyway, point is, they have added bedroom porn to the yurt to hack you brain, you go wow awesome bedroom, but it has nothing to do with a yurt.
If a yurt actually interests you look at the shell and costings only. Not the interior design.
The plants will also be dead soon enough, is there a Tumble of these plant gardens after a year? Hard to setup, but impossible to keep going. There's a startup idea, pretty indoor/vertical gardens that don't die.
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#7Some terrible, hyper-critical comments so far. A 3d-printed concrete cube with a fridge full of Soylent would be vastly more efficient for productive techies. Can't we just admit that this is an incredibly creative hybrid of old & new. The end result is breathtaking.
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#8This was on /r/DIY earlier this week. I was a heavy critic to say the least. The post just didn't feel like a genuine DIY project. ------ OP is a very talented videographer/photographer and it definitely pushed this out of feeling "DIY" for me. I'm glad to see that OP removed some of the forced marketing content to focus purely on the DIY side of this project. I don't really get the whole yurt thing (especially on co…
Even though parts of it were kit, it looks like they designed and built a lot of the interior themselves. I wonder if either one took off a sabbatical from work or if they did this all on weekend or after hours.
It's pretty neat and a lot of work, even if not entirely DIY. I mean, at some point you're going to buy pre-made parts. It's not like people grow their own trees, cut them down and cut their own planks. It's not a log cabin.
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#9Is this Portland Oregon or Portland Maine? I thought it was Portland Oregon, but then they mentioned the footings were 12 inches below the frost line, and there basically is no front line in Portland Oregon since the winters are too warm and rainy. But I assume there is a frost line in Portland Maine.
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#10How do you stay warm in the winter? The drafts must be intense.