Friggebods are small swedish cottages; they don't need building permits for less than 150 square feet. This design by Jonas Wagell is available for purchase for 12,200 euros plus freight, with a solar power module for only 1,400 euros. A bath and kitchen module is also available....
A friggebod is a Swedish garden shed, a way of getting a little more space and a little more privacy. Dorte Mandrup Arkitekter have designed a lovely little 100 square foot cabin/ office/ guest room prefab that is lovely to look at....
The American housing industry is a mess, with homebuilding back to 1991 levels, in the last banking and lending crisis. In June, according to the New York Times, house prices were down 15.9% compared to a year ago, and sales were down 35.3%. But one sector is shining: green building is up to between 6% and 10% of the market this year, up from 2% in 2002 . According to an NAHB/ McGraw-Hill study, people buying green are after quality first, then energy savings, then "doing the right thing."
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The American housing industry is a mess, with homebuilding back to 1991 levels, in the last banking and lending crisis. In June, according to the New York Times, house prices were down 15.9% compared to a year ago, and sales were down 35.3%. But one sector is shining: green building is up to between 6% and 10% of the market this year, up from 2% in 2002 . According to an NAHB/ McGraw-Hill study, people buying green are after quality first, then energy savings, then "doing the right thing."
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I used to be a strict modernist; my role at TreeHugger was to demonstrate that green design could be wonderful and cool and I filled the site with all kinds of modern houses with some claim, often weak, for being green. Those houses became less common on the site in recent times, as I worried more about house size, the appropriateness of single family dwellings on big suburban lots, and trying to reconcile my love of clean, modern design with my concern about the use of fossil fuels or building materials that cannot be maintained in a world made by hand.
Garden sheds are becoming all the rage, for good reason; they are an economical way to get a little more space, they are riding the home office boom and they are a gateway drug for modern prefab. In Britain they have built them for centuries, and the experience shows.
Cameron Scott of Timber Design designed and built the 16' x 18' Milton Studio out of local wood and insulated it with wool from local sheep. ...
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