How I built my hobbit house for just £3,000 armed only with a chisel and hammer
Rather than a funny story this week a salutory but uplifting one. I recall people being frustrated with land prices which meant that whilst the build cost of an average house was only £60K land prices had made the whole house building enterprise unaffordable for many people in terms of mortgages. This article shows what can be achieved for as little as £3K! It explains:
“Fed up with huge mortgage payments, one family decided to take matters literally into their own hands and build their home from scratch. Armed only with a chisel, chainsaw and hammer Simon Dale moved his family to a hillside in Wales and started digging. The result is a fully sustainable house constructed in just four months, for an astonishing £3,000, using scrap wood for floors and diverting water from a nearby spring.” More power to his elbow!