The plant holding area in my nursery is terraced into two section with a two foot retaining wall between them. The wall makes a right angle on one side as the lower terrace is sort of cut into a sloped area but only two feet. This northwest corner was where I built a small greenhouse [...]
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Several years ago we constructed a small pond and waterfall at the back entrance of our underground home. When it was finished, we hated it and it leaked! After a couple of years we decided to disassemble it, replace the liner and rebuilt it. After a lot of work we finally finished and again we [...]
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With all the tools and equipment for a blacksmith shop we needed some place to put it. We decided to build a barn for the shop as well as storage for tools and other equipment. I had a few girders left over from my daughter’s recently constructed home as well as a number of 4×6 [...]
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The front of the house is exposed with earth wrapping around each side and up a couple of feet below the windows. We covered all exposed surfaces with stone that was gathered on the property. The walls of the sunken courtyard in back were also covered with rock. We made the front doors with mahogany [...]
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After 8 years of construction we were more than ready to move in. We purchased very economical windows and doors with plans to upgrade at some point. The floors were concrete which we cut groves in and stained and sealed, giving them the apperance of tile. The inside wasn’t really “finished” but the inspector had [...]
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The house is roughly 50′ by 50′ with 2500 sq. ft. of living space. When we planned the house in 1975 one of the major requirements was that we could do most of the work ourselves. Ideally we would have liked reinforced concrete walls. Many, if not most homes built today use reinforced concrete for [...]
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