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A tiny house inspired by Saami Torvkata and Yurts

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It took Daniel two months work to build his tiny natural home in Northern Sweden with a few friends in 2008. Taking inspiration from Saami (native Scandinavians) torvkata (turf hut) and yurts, Daniel cut a 3m x 3m hole into a sunny hillside 1.5m deep. Building intuitively the house grew quickly. The home, which cost nearly nothing to build, stays warm in the winter, cool in the summer and still provides a magical home for one of Daniel's friends. Please watch Daniel's wonderful videos of his life and home

http://naturalhomes.org/img/vid-daniel.jpg

https://www.youtube.com/v/cPPgOSVQurw?autoplay=1&rel=0&enablejsapi=1&playerapiid=ytplayer PART 1


https://www.youtube.com/v/Gst8H6x10BU?autoplay=1&rel=0&enablejsapi=1&playerapiid=ytplayer PART 2


http://naturalhomes.org/timeline/tiny-house-sweden.htm

Daniel, the guy that built this home, has such a wonderful outlook on life. He kindly sent me Part 2 of his saga which you can see if you follow this link. The video is quite long at 18 minutes but very touching, artistic, hopeful and beautiful.

https://www.************/naturalhomes

 

I have always wanted to try staying in a yurt. That is a beautiful yurt. Thanks for sharing the links. In the second video their wok was the same size as my old wok. The scene reminded me of my old home. We had a wood burning stove and the bread i use to bake in it tasted better than any bread i have ever tasted. When my ex husband built a sod house on our old land i recycled a bunch of beer bottles from a neighboring farm house and turned them into a stain glass window. I used the different colors to make a star pattern. I had the necks of the bottles on the outside and during wind storms the house would sing. On the roof was a small wind generator which would also make a loud noise during storms. It turned into the singing hut. Eventually the house dissolved but it looked really cool the years it was standing. The bath tub scene is something we use to do in an old claw foot until we got a huge square animal feed trough. It was so deep we turned it into a wood burning hot tub. It was so cool bathing in it in winter. A snowy owl use to fly around it and sing to me at night. During the day the Cedar wax wings would sing in trees nearby and they grew to be almost as big as the owl.