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World Record #150 – The world’s most expensive house, approaching $1 billion,...
Imagine a house that is 27 stories tall. And six of those stories are for the parking garage for 160 cars. Imagine a house that covers 37,000 square meters (nearly 400,000 square feet)(as big as 160...
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The features of smart houses in 2010
Home construction is one of those things that really has not changed a whole lot for hundreds of years. For example, if you look at the houses in Colonial Williamsburg, they have pitched roofs with...
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How to build your own automatic Star Trek door for your home
Arguably one of the coolest features of the Star Trek universe is the automatic doors that open and close automatically. The doors also had a manual feature, as shown in this short clip from the...
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A different way to build a house #61 – Building a house for $3,500
This video describes a very interesting project – it is a house built for less than $3,500. Obviously such a house will be relatively small (128 square feet). Not so obviously it is built on a trailer...
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An extreme makeover for your garage – Creating the transcendent garage
It is interesting to look at the garages in suburban neighborhoods. As a general rule there seem to be three common types of garages found in the wild. At one end of the spectrum there is the “garage...
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A Different Way To Build a House #62 – Cross Laminated Timber (CLT) construction
Cross Laminated Timber panels (also known as CLT and X-LAM) are a relatively new building material. They have been used to build everything from houses to multi-story apartment buildings: The building...
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A Different Way To Build a House #63 – An 800 square foot 2-bedroom apartment...
Back in September, a challenge was issued on Treehugger’s web site to create a 420 square foot living space that can do everything a space twice that big would normally do: Help Design, Build an...
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A different way to build a house #64 – Fitting your whole life in a 90 square...
Imagine fitting your whole living space – kitchen, bathroom, bedroom, etc. – into 90 square feet. That’s a 9 x 10 foot room. Or 7 x 13 feet. It’s an extremely small footprint for an apartment. But as...
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A different way to build a house #65 – Building your home in an underground...
What if you are a little worried about a possible apocalypse, nuclear nightmare scenario, terrorist attack or food crisis? What is you want a house with a lot of well-protected square feet, preferably...
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Contest – Design a $300 house and win $25,000
If you go to 300house.com you can learn about a fascinating project/contest whose goal is to design a $300 house for the world’s two billion poorest inhabitants: We started with five simple questions:...
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