Taylor and Steph built their lovely Earthship home in California for less than $10,000. With nothing more than a vision in mind, they set out to learn the skills they would need to build their own off grid home.
They aimed the car West with a simple goal: find land, build a house. Their main objective was to build a structure that would maintain comfortable indoor temperatures year-round without air conditioning or an external heat source, and to do so using reclaimed and re-purposed materials.
The home consists of discarded tires, glass bottles, and aluminum cans. The windows and doors were all found for free on Craigslist. Even the furniture in the home was handmade or free.
The home is built into a south-sloping hillside to maximize thermal mass, so the east, west, and north walls are buried. The earthen floor is comprised of clay, straw, and sand and is sealed with hemp oil.
The walls are covered in beautiful reclaimed redwood from a barn. The posts and beams used throughout the house came from two redwood trees on the property.
The majority of the work on the Earthship was completed within a year by Steph and Taylor. They lived in a yurt on the property while they gathered the materials and began construction on their home.
I would live here in a New York minute.
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