Alternative housing fantasies
The things you find on del.icio.us — today I came across a link to a company that makes yurts, which you can
apparently outfit with central heating, plumbing, interior walls and
everything. Fantasizing about portable housing, I looked up an old link to a designer of hanging spherical treehouses (originally spotted at scribblingwoman‘s blog); other people’s similar links led me to UFO-style treehouses, loft cubes, and floating houses. I’ve always wanted to live on a houseboat…
Also found while poking around through items tagged "prefab" and "microhousing": fabprefab, a site about modernist prefabricated housing (I’m quite taken with these), and the Tumbleweed Tiny House Company. Now I’m having Thoreau-ish fantasies about siting a tiny ready-made house in the woods, or suspending one from a tree.
I enjoyed looking at these links. I still climb trees at age 47. I’d love to have a free spirit sphere as a getaway. A timeshare, I think, would be cheap and popular.
I’d timeshare one of those spheres too! They look like they’d make wonderful writing retreats.