Mike,
Thank you for the reply. I am glad work is continuing on the Ridge House, and hope you are able and ready to move into it soon. I will check out your Major Miracle Superhero and invite friends to as well. Anything I can do to help...
If you come to the Seattle area, you are welcome to come and crash with me. I have the extra room and you would be a most welcome, honored guest. If not, fine, I would still be most glad of the chance to meet you. I will be looking forward to finding out what your schedule is.
I have been a fan of yours for years, since I first came across your $50 and up
Underground House Book. I grew up in the basement of my parents house, and was always struck by how pleasant the basement was, winter or summer. Having moved there from the upstairs attic area, it was quite a contrast in the hot Idaho summers. The three windows allowing light into my room made me grow to love underground living even more.
I had been growing increasingly dissatisfied for years at the housing market, and houses in general. I knew what I didn't want, and that was to pay way too much for a crappy stick built house that I would spend the rest of my life paying for. There were underground houses, yes, but they were not what I would call attractive or affordable. I don't believe you
should be a slave for the rest of your life simply to own your own house.
So your book was like a ray of light on a cloudy day, of hope and promise. I love your designs and how light and safe and snug they are, sheltered snugly in Mother Earth. I think your design are pure genius, and I think you have done a fantastic job of designing out the flaws of other underground structures. Especially the expense. Your own $500 house, and Glenn Kangiser's Underground complex in California, have truly been an inspiration to me. I have been planning my own underground house for years, and it's final design will depend more on where I build than anything else, on the topography of the
land I end up on.
I am glad you have not dried up and blown away, that you are still out there, planning, dreaming, writing and inspiring. Great job as well on the Earth Sheltered
Greenhouse book, more inspiration, definitely.
Thanks for the link as well, Paul. Looks like I have some stuff to do today
Many thanks,
Lauren