Woodland Home

 

 

Inspire Notes:

Simon Dale wanted a life a little more soulful for his family. He did not want to spend his best years working to live an unsustainable existence in

order to pay for a conventional, same-y concrete box. So he moved to Wales in the UK and tucked into a grassy hillside he built a small,

woodland home in four months costing him just £3,000 using only a chainsaw, hammer a chisel and plenty of chutzpah. He lucked out

when the owner gave them the plot of land in return for looking after the area.

 

The house looks like something out of a book by Tolkein. It seems to be rich in what matters and feels entirely…satisfying. He had no experience in

home building but began scavenging materials from skips and the surrounding land and learning ‘on the hoof’.

The house keeps warm from a cosy log burner, he has diverted water from a nearby stream, the fridge is cooled by air beneath

the foundations, and energy is solar powered.

 

 

“Being your own have-a-go architect is a lot of fun and allows you to create and enjoy something which is part of yourself and the land rather than,

at worst, a mass-produced box designed for maximum profit and the convenience of the construction industry. Building from natural materials

does away with producers’ profits and the cocktail of carcinogenic poisons that fill most modern buildings,” Simon Dale.

 

 

 

 

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This home is made with a lion heart, energy that is ‘strong like bull’, or at the very least a community / family that is equally strong.

It requires oodles of self belief to go against the grain and not a little sprinkling of fairy dust over the whole affair. As noted above, mostly

everything in this house has been found. The fairy dust helps with the dumpster-diving to ensure that you find the bits that you need and

in this case also assisted in Mr Dale’s acquiring the land for free. Amongst the off grid communities, whilst quite a few opt solely for being

ethically pleasing, this is one of the more aesthetically pleasing results.

 

Below are some useful resources for those who want to investigate a more sustainable lifestyle but might not want to dumpster-dive and

forage as it is not for everyone. See Mr Dale’s website for specifics on his self build.


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