Building a modern home in the woods

Post by folkrav » Thu, Feb 03, 2022, 6:05 PM UTC

Mikeb85 wrote: post #123

nostromo wrote: post #71

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A heated pool for a single-family home in the wilderness seems particularly decadent and indulgent. It looks like they wanted a California house, with flat a roof and giant windows, in the Canadian Wilderness. But there's a reason houses in the mountains look the way they do. This house looks as out-of-place as a ski chalet would on the beach in San Diego. In any case, it looks as if they have enough money not to car…

I'm just laughing at a flat roof in Pemberton... It's a pretty ridiculous house.

Post by steelstraw » Thu, Feb 03, 2022, 6:06 PM UTC

adamcharnock wrote: post #122

I've done this in Portugal, but on a smaller scale and pretty much with only my own labor. I purchased 6 hectares (15 acres) for mid-5-figures. I've built an A-frame studio house for around €10k (excl tools), and installed a 5kw solar system for about another €10k. The house has air conditioning and underfloor heating (water-based, heated using wood from the land). I've also brought a 50-year-old tractor and started…

Post by 1auralynn » Thu, Feb 03, 2022, 6:07 PM UTC

yawnxyz wrote: post #14

whoa that is a mansion, not a "modern home" I had the opportunity to stay very nice place up in BC last summer — at the price of constant fear that we might need to hop in the car and leave everything behind at any second. And this was in a fairly big town (Kelowna). I can't imagine what the risks are for living in a place like this is...

Post by drBonkers » Thu, Feb 03, 2022, 6:08 PM UTC

oh_sigh wrote: post #81

ttul wrote: post #12

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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.

If a couple in their 30s with 2 children are kids...what do you consider adults? Also, I'm approximately their same demographic and could afford to build a house like this if the other estimates in this thread are approximate, and have literally not taken a penny from my parents, or used their resources(which are scant - I was paid more my first job out of college than both my parents combined), since I was 16.

Post by jfk13 » Thu, Feb 03, 2022, 6:10 PM UTC

Gravityloss wrote: post #105

Is there a post about the technology of the house? I'm interested especially in energy conservation technology like insulation, windows, heating solution, foundation etc...