And that's why smokejumpers need to die every year. Because people need to build luxury homes in the forest.
Building a modern home in the woods
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#22Leaving out the actual financial information makes this post a little useless. Before I can imagine it, I want to know if I can do this or if I need to be a trust fund baby.
Assuming they hired an architect and had hired labor build it (and put Feist lyrics at the bottom of the post), easily in the multi-million dollar range considering the location. That said, it doesn't have to be that way. I'm building a house up in the mountains at the moment. Found ~3 acres for 12k and I'm doing the land clearing and build mostly by myself on the weekends to keep costs down. My current guess is fina…
3 acres for 12k? Where? That's incredible. Well done!
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#230 words about forest fires or preparing a defensible boundary and setback. Their insurance is going to be fierce .
My thoughts as well. In the BC woods is only a question of when the next forest fire will come.
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#24Leaving out the actual financial information makes this post a little useless. Before I can imagine it, I want to know if I can do this or if I need to be a trust fund baby.
These kids may not have a trust fund, but to have already bought and sold a Vancouver townhouse with enough equity to buy raw land and build a fairly baller house on it… they definitely had parental help.
Or are working in highly-paid careers. It's definitely not infeasible for a dual tech income to afford this after an early life saving for it.
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#25The way to do this if you're not wealthy is to get a cheapo plot of land on the Oregon/Washington coast ($<100k for up to .5 acres) and put a manufactured home on it. It's way simpler, cheaper, and the construction on manufactured homes has improved a lot over the years (they're framed with 2x6s to survive transport, and this makes them sturdier and better insulated than most traditional houses). I did it and it's been great! No complaints. No architectural magazine is going to feature my house though.
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#260 words about forest fires or preparing a defensible boundary and setback. Their insurance is going to be fierce .
And the house has wood siding with a flat roof and grass growing on the roof! Yikes!
Yeah, I saw those flat roofs, and talk of whistler, and thought what a nightmare. Peaked roofs exist for a reason. I wonder what their snow strategy is? Because one day of rain on top of several feet of snow causes severe structural strain if it can’t just slide down.
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#27Doesn't the author actually mean postmodern ? "Modern home" architecture is from the early-mid 20th century. If you're looking to build a home, do yourself a favor and watch Essential Craftsman's Spec House series ( https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mn4L_aJ1rV4&list=PLRZePj70B4... ). Your eyeballs will grow wider and wider with all the considerations, but you'll be better informed for it.
There's Modern, and then there's modern.
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#28Earlier quoted context omitted.
Assuming they hired an architect and had hired labor build it (and put Feist lyrics at the bottom of the post), easily in the multi-million dollar range considering the location. That said, it doesn't have to be that way. I'm building a house up in the mountains at the moment. Found ~3 acres for 12k and I'm doing the land clearing and build mostly by myself on the weekends to keep costs down. My current guess is fina…
3 acres for 12k? Where? That's incredible. Well done!
Tennessee.
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#29Cool story! I didn't notice it in there, maybe I just missed it, I would be worried about animals getting in the house, I wonder if they designed it to be animal proof? Being up in the woods there, the house must be under constant attack from the woodland creatures. Animals being anything from bees and ants and assorted bugs to squirrels and chipmunks and maybe bears. I have a SMALL woods behind my house and find all…
I had fears of that when we moved into our house surrounded not only by woods, but wetlands and farm fields. We were pleasantly surprised how little problems we've had from creatures. We do see animals of all kinds wandering on the property - deer, squirrels, rabbits, racoons, opossum, coyotes, owls, hawks, eagles... you name it. The tracks in the winter are even more evidence that we are surrounded by wildlife. But they honestly aren't a problem. They leave the home alone. We have had one mouse in our first year here. A few ants and flies last summer. Honestly, we had bigger problems in the city. My only guess is that there is such a strong natural ecosystem here that they simply don't need anything from our home, so they are just as happy to leave it to us humans.
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